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Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
Leonard Cohen
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Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'
Robert M. Hutchins
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Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important
Kay Yow
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My rule is, whatever is the most urgent is what I do next.
Shelby Steele
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Don’t let the urgent take precedent over the important.
Michael Hyatt
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.
Mason Cooley
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
Edward de Bono
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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
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As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.
George Saunders
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
Ann Voskamp
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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.
Roberto Unger
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I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.
John McCain
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Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.
Ian Bogost
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The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.
David S. Broder
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We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.
Joyce Meyer