Quotes About Immediacy

My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'

Soon is not as good as now.

I need you ready in ten seconds'' ''As my boyfriend told me last night

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

The most important thing about the 'next time' is that there may not be a next time!

The past is gone, and tomorrow is an illusion. There is only now.

We should live our lives Christ was coming this afternoon!

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

My time is now.

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

And yet as the day progressed she had found herself wishing that he would come— now . If not sooner.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning -- it'll be gone. [ Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver ( O Magazine , March 2011)]

instantaneous picture of a slender blue-gowned girl

Because we never know whether our next breath may be our last, being prepared for the immediate unknown becomes as practical as applying for a passport while still uncertain of our destination or time of departure.

everything is handled right now on the spot.

La tragedia del Ser consciente de sí mismo genera sufrimiento, un sufrimiento inevitable que a su vez causa el deseo de una satisfacción egoísta e inmediata, es decir, el deseo de aquello que resulta conveniente.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

The hour draws near!

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

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.