Urgent Quotes

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

Never let something important become urgent

Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

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

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

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

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

Always look for forced urgent selling.

The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

Do what is important, not what is urgent.

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.