Sense of Urgency Quotes

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes - and that is why I am in a hurry.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.

I really don't have time for nonsense.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished. I have an absolute need to see that every phone call is returned, every letter answered.

There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

But I don't want to die! I have so much to do!

We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

What motivates people to be late?... Some people are drawn to the adrenaline rush of that last-minute sprint to the finish line. Others receive an ego boost from over-scheduling and filling each moment with an activity.