Urgent Matters Quotes

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

First Things First

Ever since I could remember, women's issues have been pretty urgent.

I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in a universal way.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

Whenever a question is of some importance, it should not be decided on the day when it is submitted to you. Whenever it is not an urgent one, I make it a rule not to let any question be forced upon my immediate decision; … And even when in my mind I am disposed to accede, still I always keep the papers with me some little time before I return them.

You cannot focus on things that are so far in the future when you've got things that you can't take your eye off now.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.