task urgency Quotes

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?

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

One of the problems that exacerbates procrastination is the feeling that you have lots of different things to do and no clear sense of which matter more, when they should be done, etc.

When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

You know Washington. If the deadline is midnight, they'll start working on it at 11:30.