Michelle Obama Quotes

Urgency is unbelievably important when you're talking about, not little changes, but big changes.

There is no time for normal General Staff procedure. Speed is essential and your efforts should be informal.

The time for change is now.

There are some things that you can work on immediately.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

We like things to happen very quickly; it’s our lifestyle.

Reform or die.

We don’t need to wait three generations for change.

This nation is asking for action and action now.

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

The progress has to start now.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."