Urgency Quotations

I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

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

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.

I would describe them as a wake-up call to the industry. There's a great sense of urgency around this, both in our members and in the industry at large.

Nichiren does not have a sense of urgency and he needs to practice better.

None of us are satisfied with our performance in 2005. We are acting with a tremendous sense of urgency to win back our customers.

Of course it's alarming, we wouldn't be human if we weren't a little upset about this. We were far too sloppy and we didn't play with the urgency we needed. We got what we deserved tonight.

My district office continues to stay in touch with county and city officials so that they know full well my urgency in dealing with the situation. My experience with Devil's Slide goes way back now.

Nothing in these numbers would change the outlook for Fed policy, which is to tighten credit and to try to encourage market conditions that would slow growth to a more sustainable pace this year. The report leaves the Fed on track for a quarter-point hike in February, but there isn't the kind of urgency to warrant a 50 basis point hike.

Now, the urgency for setting these . . . mandates is not there, so the city can better think through ways to work cooperatively with the private sector to achieve higher levels of recycling.

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

My focus is we won 79 games. That's a bad year. Anybody who sits in this seat and thinks that's acceptable, that's wrong. The urgency for me is to rectify coming off a bad year. If the White Sox hadn't won, we still have 79 in the win column and that's never going to be acceptable as long as I'm doing it, and we have to try like heck to get it fixed.

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

I don't know that there's a sense of urgency among members of Congress to address it. I don't think there are any plans among the pro-life coalition to push for Congress to intervene.

I don't know what the red card was for. They didn't give me much of an explanation. But it put a sense of urgency in our guys that we didn't have before, and we answered the call.

We're just going to have to dig down and find the energy and play with a sense of urgency that we need. It's as simple as that.

Sean has been a guy who has reached out to me. He seems to have a sense of urgency about this.

She shares the urgency of the family in wanting to get it processed. Sometimes she has to step in and cut through the red tape.

I was interested in the subject largely because it is a great saga with a great cast, many cinematic elements and a strong sense of urgency for public safety. It involves elements of farce, tragedy and comedy, with many wild twists and turns.

Guys weren't happy about it. So I think it's definitely a sense of urgency to get our second half of the year started on a good note and win our own tournament.

given the circumstances, the environment, the sense that we were responding to 9/11, and all of the urgency that was created by the rhetoric and cajoling of the administration.

I feel like there has been a loss of urgency since 9/11.

Given the urgency of the challenges that face the province, and the amazing opportunities that lie before us, the impact of a two-year leadership race must seriously be considered.

Given the urgency of the situation and the fact that it can take up to a month to ballot, we will not be sitting on our hands,

I don't' think we've seen any sign here that there is an urgency to risk damaging the pace of the upturn. Why rush, why panic?

I don't believe we lacked urgency because in the first half we were really there on the cuts as far as defense goes. But our offense was really stagnant. That seemed to be our problem. Once we got it going in the second half, it was a very quick game.

But the urgency of our financial situation requires that we move forward quickly.

Here is evidence that should prompt a sense of urgency among those responsible for aboriginal education. Low education outcomes are condemning the next generation to poverty.

We've got to play better than we're playing. There's no margin for error. They're playing with a lot of confidence and at a high level. ... But the opportunity is right there. If you have the opportunity to win this game, you have a chance to control a lot of your destiny. But we have to play a lot better than we are right now and a sense of urgency to get there.

When he was in my office, ECISD officers didn't see the urgency for an arrest. By the 28th, Chief Pipes was saying the same thing. To me, that's their decision.

Having just approved the 2006 annual operating plan, I and the other directors believe the company is essentially on the right course for long-term growth, and that our employees and senior management team have a sense of urgency about improving the company's financial results. However, we will take this opportunity to re-examine the strategic direction of Gateway to fine-tune our products, services and approach to our professional and consumer direct markets.

He was not responsible to the structure of our academic program. I think this should take care of it. He dug himself a hole in the first semester, and I expect a sense of urgency we haven't seen.

He wanted some sort of deal from the district attorney's office for his cooperation, and he wanted an attorney to assist him in working through this negotiation. The sheriff and I unsuccessfully tried to get him a public defender assigned as soon as possible because of the urgency of the situation.

He wants to get on the same page with the receivers. Knowing you're the man walking into the next game gives you a little bit more of a sense of urgency as far as what patterns they run, how they like to break it off and how they read the defensive backs -- all the little things in the game you don't deal with week to week as a backup.

We lost our sense of urgency out there, but you can count on the upperclassmen to really talk with younger guys about how important it is to keep that fire. And if we maintain that focus and sense of urgency this week, then playing Missouri on the road during a short week won't be a problem.

He is an absolute advocate of organic farming and really seems to understand the urgency of sustainability.

There is an urgency in this year's report that we haven't had in recent years. Each state has its own set of challenges to work through. ... There is much more room to go.

Hopefully this is a real good slap in the face for us. The level of urgency has to be turned up several octaves now.

Whatever the form of adversity, many people find that they need help to sell their house fast. The urgency involved requires an investor who knows exactly what to do when time is so critical.

There is a great deal of urgency about this. I think it is the most important thing on the agenda in Iraq, which is to respond to the efforts of the terrorists to divide by terrorism by uniting through democracy.

He never lost his cool. He knew he had to make certain plays in order for us to keep going. He was everything you'd expect out of a veteran quarterback. He just calms me. His effect on me is calming. He did that for me in 1998, and he's done that here as well. There's always that sense of, 'You know what? We're OK. We're going to be OK.' It's not a lack of urgency by any stretch. It's just a calmness.

We just haven't played with enough urgency when we've played them.

Somehow we've got to turn it. We've got to turn it immediately for us to get back in this thing. We're still there, but we've got to turn it immediately. We've got to turn attitudes and turn to believe in yourself as well as your team. We've got to turn it around and make guys understand the importance of it, number one, the urgency of it, number two, and leave it out on the floor.

Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field. We were 16-of-31 from the line. Castle Rock out-hustled us and out-worked us. We had a big enough lead that we were able to hold on, but we did not play with a sense of urgency and we missed a lot of shots.

I respect John Sweeney; he has spent his whole life working for working families. But we are in a critical moment in our history for working families. Things are getting worse for them, and time is running out to turn things around. The urgency to rebirth the labor movement is much stronger than my loyalty to individual friendships.

'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

I think what you'll see with York on board is a greater sense of urgency to drive changes and accelerate restructuring actions.

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

I think everyone understands the urgency right now. I would expect us to play very well. They all know where we are. I don't have to put any undue pressure on anybody.

Our guys gutted it out. I'm really proud of them. We didn't play with any sense of urgency in the first half. That's tough to overcome. You have to have pretty much everything go right in the second half. And saying that, we had a chance to win.

Many and most of the nontraditional high schools do have integrity and do provide a quality education. But it is clear that some do not. The committee recognizes that these are real problems. We know the abuses are going on as we speak, and I think there's a great sense of urgency among all of the members of the committee to take on these issues as quickly as possible.

I think they realized it wasn't enough for them to want it, or to be giving everything they have. They wanted to be sure other people understood and felt the same sense of urgency and sense of importance about the game of football and about the team.

I still think he was a little too casual at times. There has to be more urgency when you have to get behind somebody and get tight on somebody.

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

It is a short week and we have a long trip against a tough opponent. It's going to be a sense of urgency for us to get prepared for this one.

I think the urgency and the desperation have gone up. We've gotten points in three straight games and we've had opportunities, now we need the consistency aspect. In order to win in this league, you've got to play 60 minutes, and I have the utmost confidence we'll do that.

I think the seniors will play hard. This is a single elimination tournament and it's a really amplified view through the lens of someone who has at most four games left and as few as one. They'll bring a lot of urgency to the contest.

I think the sense of urgency was never really there to get it done and I believe something like this forces it to get done. I believe it can be done.

I think there's a bit more urgency in his tone than we might have seen a month ago.

I think there was a sense of urgency out there for both teams. We were both looking for a spark.

I think there's a sense of urgency about getting this done and getting it done by next Tuesday when the president would have to start vetoing bills if it's not done,

Our state of mind right now is that we're feeling good about where we are going. We're playing with a lot of urgency right now. We're playing with a lot of grit.

Our team at the beginning of the year probably would have just packed it in for a game like this. But tonight we had a sense of urgency from kickoff, and everything was sharp.

Our findings suggest the soil part of the equation is scarier than we had thought. The consequence is that there is more urgency about doing something.

I think everybody wants to see him. I haven't seen him since October, but we've talked on the phone. There's no urgency to talk except for the normal welcoming. There's a lot of time to discuss things.

I was very proud of the way the girls battled back and never gave up. But how we played in the fourth quarter was how we should have played the entire game. We still need to learn to play with a sense of urgency the entire game.

I was going for a kind of Zen effect, ... This record is about us going back to our element. The urgency and intensity of this album is like our first record. And the title started to mean that, yeah, we've been through a lot, and this album is coming out after we've been doing this for 10 years. It feels new and right and happy again.

It is a different world in that the sense of urgency and sense of need is so much heightened.

I think we came out much better and much stronger tonight. We had more urgency on the puck. We played with a spark that we didn't have against Latvia.

I think we haven't really connected this to quite the level we should with the sense of urgency to really begin to deal with this in a fundamental way,

I think we have some urgency with the fact that our team realizes that we are a good team, and we've got a chance that not every team has. We've got a chance to make the playoffs and a chance to do some damage when we get there.

I think we have to look at, you know, many issues. And first of all, we have to reach a consensus on the level of urgency and the magnitude of the problem before we develop a long-term solution.

I think we know our postseason life is on the line every day - not every game - every day. We have our sense of urgency every day.

I think we're very close to being very good, but that small measure comes in the way of scoring goals, and we have to get better. Normally I don't meet with the team (after a game). I felt that tonight it warranted it. There needs to be a much greater since of urgency to get the win and I felt there wasn't enough urgency out there.

I think in ways I'd like to consider myself one of those guys but it's coming from a different position than what I'm used to being in. Not to take anything away from that, but we can't coddle anybody. There has to be a sense of urgency to find a way to better yourself and become a true pro.

I think we got caught not having the urgency we needed early in the game. We didn't get out and jump on them. We didn't put them on their heels like we've done to other teams in the past.

I thought we moved the puck well and played faster that we had been. We protected the scoring area and moved the puck up the ice, but more importantly, we played with intensity and a sense of urgency today.

We never really played with any urgency throughout the game.

True Drama is only conceivable as proceeding from a common urgency of every art towards the most direct appeal to a common public. In this Drama, each separate art can only bare its utmost secret to their common public through a mutual parleying with the other arts; for the purpose of each separate branch of art can only be fully attained by the reciprocal agreement and co-operation of all the branches in their common message.

We had our best two practices of the year on Monday and Tuesday. I think the kids hopefully understand the sense or urgency we have now. We just (have) to get better every day.

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We don't have any room for any mistakes right now. We have to play with a real sense of urgency at this point of time, especially having dropped two games at home in the league.

We know it's crunch time and that each and every game is like a playoff game for us. We want to show Chicago that we want it more than they do. We've got to play with the same urgency and focus that we've had in the last few games and we should be OK.

We are in a precarious position right now. Nothing is a lock. To make the playoffs, we will have to have more of a sense of urgency at both ends. Tonight's game was a setback.

Using 'it could be great' hits the so-what problem, because it doesn't convey a sense of urgency for voters to do anything. There's no emotional potency. But that's the story of the Ferrer campaign.

We need to play, I don't want to say with a sense of urgency (but) we need to be able to execute and finish games. We put ourselves in position to win, and hopefully, we learn from those missed opportunities and change those outcomes.

That was the best second half I've seen us play ... We scored only three points in the first half, and came back to score 22 in the second. I was impressed with the sense of urgency in the face of adversity with which we played.

We aren't desperate. We won't call it that. We know there's an urgency to win. ... It's not desperation - that's panic.

We came out with a sense of urgency and we played strong in the first half. They turned up the half-court pressure in the second and some of our inexperience showed. It was frustrating.

We came out with a sense of urgency today. We didn't know as much about this team as the others we've faced in this game and then we knew this was for states, which raised our intensity even more.