Urgency Quotations | Page 4

The frustrating thing about it is the way we lost. It's bad enough to lose, but to lose like that ... we just seemed to be flat. I don't think we gave up a ton of chances, but we didn't create any down there. ... We didn't come with the urgency we needed.

The gloves are off. They realized the urgency of the situation.

You've got to play with urgency and we aren't playing with urgency right now. That's why we're a step late everywhere. That's why teams are scoring on us. It's a long season and there are always ups and downs. We just have to get back somehow on the horse and whatever we need to do we need to do it.

The guys behind the first three, I don't see any sense of urgency in them. We need (the incoming freshmen linebackers) to come in here and maybe wake them up.

You can't win this tournament unless you start putting 40 minutes together. We were challenging them before the game to have a more spirited sense of urgency in the first half.

You could see a real sense of urgency on our part. We had a couple of days to re-group.

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

For me, it would cause a real sense of urgency if we're still doing (harmful) things now that we were doing to people 15 years ago.

It's of great urgency for both the mainland and Taiwan to raise their technology levels, change economic growth patterns and to enhance innovation capacity to develop an innovation-oriented economy.

It's not the kind of football I like to see from our team. We'll work hard to try to get it fixed. There is no excuse for it. We dropped balls, we didn't execute, we didn't play with the kind of urgency and intensity that good teams play with. Everybody needs to decide what kind of team we're going to have.

I tried to urge our guys to come out in the third quarter with some urgency and try to get something going, we came out as flat as we did in the first half. It's just a very bad effort on our part.

It's matter of very high urgency that they do this. They desperately need to contract the size of the company.

It might add a little urgency to efforts that are already under way.

I treat it like any other situation and try to play mistake-free. If you treat it any other way, you may overreact. You have to play with urgency but in a positive way.

It's all mostly effort when it comes to this game. Maybe some of the younger guys don't have that sense of urgency we obviously need to win basketball games. I think as far as talent we have enough to get over the hump.

Everyone is lowering their expectations for demand. It's taken the urgency out of the market.

It's not a decision I make. All our guys have to look at as laying it on the line when they get the opportunity to do it. We need to do that up and down the lineup. There should definitely be a sense of urgency that we are playing for our playoff lives.

It's not going to go away. There is no urgency because he is not going to be in another race but there are some explanations that are going to have be given.

There was definitely a sense of urgency in overtime. We went into the overtime period knowing we hadn't played our best game totally. The way (Florida coach) Gerry (Fleming) put it was we had opportunity to right our wrongs. So I think all of us turned it up a notch.

It seems like we're digging deeper and deeper into a hole. Maybe we don't feel the urgency to produce. It's not something we can let go anymore. You can lose two or three, but not four, five going into the playoffs.

There's a lot of clocks that we're on. Contract clocks, age clocks. So the urgency is at an all-time high.

The report is certainly encouraging. It says there's no urgency to panic about inflation. But that's not the same as saying there's justification for a pause. This is all pre-Katrina. There's enough pipeline pressures out there to say that a pause is not a slam dunk.

There is no urgency to bring the sugar now, especially with the pullback in prices.

There isn't a sense of urgency in the market. Buyers don't feel they need to stretch (finances) the way they felt before.

There's definitely a healthy number of people going online to shop. One thing is the fact that Thanksgiving fell so much earlier this year than last year. There's less of an urgency for some people to go and get those products as soon as possible.

There's a sense of urgency any time you play in the state tournament. It's one loss and you go home.

There's a sense of urgency in construction. If builders have approval for a project, they're going to try to move ahead as quickly as possible.

There's a sense of urgency on both contracts with looming deadlines Thursday night for Boeing, and essentially Sunday night for the garbage companies.

There's a sense of urgency on every point, on every shot. It's an incredible challenge. I certainly didn't have enough today.

There's a sense of urgency to it, and that's good. I believe that's the result of Liberal caucus pressure that's been building.

There's a sense of urgency to start getting wins. We get this win, it gives us more confidence going into the UTEP game and to continue racking them up.

There's a sense of urgency until we're in the playoffs. We can't take anything for granted.

It was disappointing for us to be as lethargic as we were and just emotionless even when we were down six points. We never showed a sense of urgency and never really found a rhythm. Obviously LSU had a lot to do with that.

We lost a sense of urgency while guarding him.

We certainly played them at a time when they had the greatest sense of urgency you can have.

We certainly share the mayor's sense of urgency for this project. We've spent a great deal of time and money on this project over the past few years.

It was a sense of urgency from the agency to get a warning and information to people who already had purchased it. We could have waited. We could have had every aspect of this investigation done. And during that period of time something else could have happened to another child.

We just kept waiting and waiting and waiting but never did see a sense of urgency from Washington.

We flip-flopped things this morning to get the pitching and hitting in before that. We're going to work on our fundamentals all spring, so we felt like that wasn't an urgency right now.

We just got our butts kicked tonight. This game really let us know where we stand. We have to have more of a sense of urgency and bring some focus to each and every game.

We just lost our intensity. There was no sense of urgency out there the last seven or eight minutes. It dropped, and you could tell.

We talked about its 20 minutes and today really matters a whole bunch. And it's a sense of urgency and the fact that if you want to compete for a Big Ten title, this can't happen today. We can't lose today.

It's a privilege to take part in such a worthy cause. The people of that region need our help, and everyone at Crown Royal Championship Racing recognizes the urgency to do whatever we can to assist in the relief efforts.

It should put added pressure on them. The source of urgency has to come from the decision maker, in me, and it also has to come from within, the dressing room. That urgency has to be addressed and solidified. Not just talked about, but done.

It's been an odd series for us. We played a good first period and then we let Quad City take the game to us in the second. We finally showed that urgency in the third.

There's a little sense of urgency coming towards the end of the season, with everything up in the air contract-wise, ... I think with the importance of every start going in, trying to be a little more focused, I've picked up on a few things that can be helpful.

There's a little sense of urgency when you leave three weeks from when you start. Practice has been going fine, but this is about 2? weeks earlier than we'd normally play.

There's a strong sense of urgency to have better results in 2006 and improve on those in 2007.

There's a very strong sense of urgency to show improved results now.

I do have an appointment to meet with the chairman of the appropriations committee (Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Redlands), who happens to represent Apple Valley. It is my intention to impress upon him the urgency this project should be held.

Governments and people's courts at all levels should realize the importance and urgency of the construction of people's tribunals,

If he responds, great. If he doesn't, those minutes are going to be hard to get. We can't play defense without urgency and tough-mindedness.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

A miscommunication. When you are backed up like that you have a sense of urgency to secure the football.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

The last time we played them, we didn't do a good job of recognizing our game plan and matching up. We didn't have the sense of urgency we needed to win.

You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!

The devastation and tragic loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week reinforce the urgency of our coalition's work,

I frequently gravitate toward characters that have some urgency or soul.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A most instructive case to view The hundred fingered me with hands Chill'd by the blasts of northern lands: Fever at outset had I none I have it, Sir,