Quotes About Immediacy

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You forget the past, and you forget that there's such a thing as a future.

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Ho una ostinata fiducia nella suggestione immediata, automatismo o spontaneismo come chiamar la si voglia, e diffido dei razionalismi e delle modificazioni ulteriori. Considero la poesia, innanzitutto, come un mezzo di scoperta, di conoscenza delle tendenze latenti, mie e della realtà che mi attornia.

We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in instant gratification.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

The most charming thing about theatre is that you get an instant reaction from the audience.

I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

Y)ou didn't want somebody running around smiling and saying, 'We'll get by,' when the house was on fire; you wanted somebody to yell 'fire!

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

I should like to like Schumann's music better than I do; I dare say I could make myself like it better if I tried; but I do not like having to try to make myself like things; I like things that make me like them at once and no trying at all.

propinquity.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

The time is now. Now we can market in real time. Now we can market instantly.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.