Urgent Quotes - Page 7

• There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Joy, Technique, Needs

  Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

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• My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.

  Bill Maher

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

  "Lite Night with Bill Maher". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1998.

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• Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

  Richard G. Scott

  Character, Needs, Obedience

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• Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

  Arianna Huffington

  Ninety Nine, Culture, Where You Are

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• I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.

  Aldo Leopold

  Law, Accomplishment, Tasks

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• Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Needs, Revolution, Bases

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• ...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

  Tom McClintock

  Political, Decision, Pressure

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• Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

  Jacob Neusner

  Self, People, Together

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• The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.

  Judith Warner

  Retirement, Writing, School

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• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our economy as well, maybe even more urgent bearing in mind the problem that we cannot yet deal with, namely the prevalence of the oil and gas sector in the Russian Federation and, as a result, dependence on revenue from oil and gas.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Oil, Leader

  Source: thesaker.is

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• What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

  John Dewey

  Character, Practice, Depth

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

  Brandi Carlile

  Problem, Oppression, Our Time

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

  Pico Iyer

  Religious, Thinking, Priorities In Life

  Source: layoga.com

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• I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.

  Christian Wiman

  Two, Poet, Anna

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm quite pessimistic about climate change. This is an urgent problem, and much of the world is only now waking up to the easiest part of solving - the realization that anthropogenic global warming is real.

  Philip Kitcher

  Real, Climate, Wake Up

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.

  George Pattison

  Reality, Thinking, Impact

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.

  Will Oldham

  Song, People, Rooms

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

  Denise Duhamel

  Writing, Community, Bob

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.

  Astra Taylor

  Book, Grateful, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, World, Steps

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, Climate, Principles

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Emo, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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