#urgent

Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#assistance #bank #because #bridges #done

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

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

— Ike Skelton

#any #country #includes #insurgents #our

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

He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#four #insurgent #tobias #tris #body

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am? ↗

— Veronica Roth

#strategy

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#atomic #atomic energy #created #energy #existing

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#life #most #others #persistent #question