#urgent

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#been #build #citizens #faith #financial

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently. ↗

— Dannii Minogue

#done #get #had #i #meant

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#available #deeply #effective #every #headline

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#communicate #consensus #development #doubts #explain

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#after #am #become #country #emigration

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#any #country #includes #insurgents #our

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#minorities #national #other #problem #race

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#knew #me #most #nothing #open

Tobias," I say anyway. My hands shake, but not from fear this time– from anger. "Where is he? What are you doing to him?" "I see no reason to provide that information," says Jeanine... I make my voice flat and factual, like hers. "I see no reason to provide that information." I hear a faint snort. Peter is covering his mouth. Jeanine glares at him, and his laughter effortlessly transforms into a coughing fit. "Mockery is childish, Beatrice," she says. "It does not become you." "Mockery is childish, Beatrice," I repeat in my best imitation of her voice. "It does not become you." ↗

— Veronica Roth

#anger

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#principle-of-priority #priorities #urgent #art