Urgent Quotes - Page 9

• The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

  Angela Carter

  Iron, Sheets, Deadline

  "The stories of our lives" by Carmen Callil, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement." Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.

  King Hussein I

  Agreement, Goal, People

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• We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon it too eagerly. What is privacy for? This question needs an urgent answer.

  Evgeny Morozov

  People, Needs, Answers

  "Author: Think twice about 'the Internet'". Interview with Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Needs, Speak, Lost

  "The Ecstasy of Communication" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Bernard and Caroline Schutze, New York:Semiotext(e), (p. 30), 1987.

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• So depending on the day, my schedule is different. But, generally speaking, I get up in the morning, I do a 30 to 45 minute prescheduling of tweets and just seeing if there's anything urgent - do-or-die emails or server outages, stuff like that. Then after that I go to the gym, where I do all my long-form reading - so Instapaper, and all the Kindle books. I go through an embarrassing amount of books per week.

  Maria Popova

  Morning, Book, Reading

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• Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

  Rumi

  Passion, Wine, Men

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• Do what is important, not what is urgent.

  Stephen Covey

  Important

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• Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

  John Updike

  Doe, Feels, Pointless

  John Updike (2012). “Roger's Version: A Novel”, p.83, Random House

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• If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Essentials, Might

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Important

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• The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Love You, Things In Life, Mystery

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Encore Valentine”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

  James Lovelock

  Democracy, Way, Climate

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• I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Prompts

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1771). “The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.229

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• Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Compassion, Two

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Mar 16, 2017

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• This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Spiritual, Real

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• At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Compassion

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• When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

  R. C. Sherriff

  Retirement, Work, Age

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• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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• America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

  Denis Hayes

  Technology, America, Cities

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• Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.

  William Hartung

  Military, Iraq, Needs

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• The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Moving, Thinking

  "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

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• Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent need for business to play that role. Your lobbying influence can be substantial, but together, united and in large enough numbers it could prove decisive in turning the tide.

  Prince Charles

  Encouragement, Business, Power

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• Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Design, Swamps

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