Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent."
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Urgent
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Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Urgent necessity prompts many to do things."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times."
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"What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important."
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"Do what is important, not what is urgent."
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"We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent."
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