Quotes for Urgency

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

Justin Townes Earle

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Kailash Satyarthi

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

Nas

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

George Clooney

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Any candidate should put forward a vision and plans that really show how we can move with urgency.

Michelle Wu

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

Kurt Vile

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse.

Farrah Gray

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

Rick Santelli

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

Nell Scovell

When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

Susan Orlean

I think if we're going to be serious as a city, as a country, about addressing climate change, addressing inequality and racial disparities, we have to start taking action at the scale that matches the urgency of the problems.

Michelle Wu

I didn't grow up with any kind of music lessons, which is what I wanted. You've got to pay for these things. And the school I was in, music wasn't the main focus; there probably wasn't the budget. So it really had to come from within, this urgency.

Naughty Boy

I've always been in an environment saturated with Democrats, and because we aren't constantly challenged, we feel little urgency, we struggle to be enthusiastic and we can get lazy.

Jack Schlossberg

Every time I'm practicing, playing or prepping, Majors are always going to be the ones everybody wants to win. But putting the urgency or too much pressure on yourself is not going to do any favors.

Tommy Fleetwood

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

We need a T governance structure capable of responding to the depth of our regional transportation crisis while tearing down silos that keep municipal leaders and state officials from working together with urgency on shared goals.

Michelle Wu

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

Howard Schultz

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn