Urgent or important

‘I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.

wisdom of a former college president, quoted by Dwight David Eisenhower – American general and politician, 1953-61 34th president (1890-1969), in his address to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois (Augsut 19, 1954)