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Quotes About Immediate

What are you waiting for? Now is all there is!
~ George Balanchine
When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.
~ Terri Irwin
Begin doing what you want to do now.
~ Marie Beynon Ray
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
~ Larry Harvey
The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.
~ Meir Kahane
She thought it over, but couldn't see any immediate loopholes other than the threat of her inner slut emerging, and she could darned well control that little bitch.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
~ Ginger Baker
A doctor is pushed by the system to transfer risk from himself to you, and from the present into the future, or from the immediate future into a more distant future.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In fact for most people except those that are very ill, the risks outweigh the benefits. Except that the long-term medical risks are hidden; they will play out in the long run, whereas the legal risk is immediate. This is no different from the Bob Rubin risk-transfer trade, of delaying risks and making them look invisible.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
These two mistakes are quite telling because, in both cases, the benefits appeared to be obvious and immediate, though small, and the harm remained delayed for years
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.
~ Neal Shusterman
The change in her when it came was sudden.
~ Chinua Achebe
Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.
~ Lisa Gansky
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.
~ Joyce Brothers
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
~ Eartha Kitt
There is a sense of motion and a concise, immediate image in haikus and Anishinaabe dream songs.
~ Gerald Vizenor
In the field, though, the causes were immediate. A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences that lasted forever.
~ Tim O'Brien
This is not a drill.
~ Tom Stoppard
We can't save it up or hoard it. We have to spend it second by second, in real time.
~ Kevin Kelly
All of the sudden
~ Kevin O'Brien
In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
~ Koichi Tanaka
The only necessary aspect is the inward realization of the total, unified, immediate, "at-this-instant," state of the organism which is me. For example, to realize fully that at this moment the oneness in me is simply that "I am deeply frightened at the possibility of becoming something different" is of the essence of therapy.
~ Carl R. Rogers
I don't like this culture of reading a book and spitting out an immediate reaction.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.
~ George Gordon Byron