urgent tasks Quotes

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.

I tend to take on too many projects at the same time, but as I've always done, I will continue to shift my focus onto whatever feels most urgent in the moment.

Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time.

A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'

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

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

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.

To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.