Quotes About Immediacy

I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Radio is immediate.

The future is now.

Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If books had made up a large part of the experience of my youth, it only meant that what I'd missed in immediacy of experience, I'd gained in variety, looking so widely into the thought…s and dreams of others, of travelers and sages, of soldiers and scholars and all the mighty dead.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

very close at hand, and at the same

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

In short, the portrait of Jesus as a Spirit person is history remembered and not simply history metaphorized. This is the basis for my claim that Jesus was a Jewish mystic: for him, God was an experiential reality. He knew the immediacy of the sacred in his own experience. And this claim leads to a second claim: Jesus' experience of God was foundational for the rest of what he was.

In particular, healing as practiced by Jesus and his itinerant followers pointed to an unbrokered relationship to God, apart from institutional mediation.38 In short, Jesus' healing activity flowed out of and affirmed the immediacy of access to God.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

we are running out of time for dealing with this

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

There is always time for another last minute

There is no time like the present.

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.

He wanted her hands on him, he wanted her mouth on him, he wanted to take her from behind, leaning over the bunk, he wanted her to go down on him, he wanted everything he could possibly think of and more. He wanted it hard and nasty, gentle and sweet. But most of all he wanted it now.