Quotes About Immediacy

Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse. Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First thought best thought' is not 'First word best word ' Ginsberg does rewrite. I'm sure he does.

I wish our love was right now.

By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.

Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a need to say or do something, now, now, the minute it is thought of, combined with that other sense, of the complete irrelevance of time.

Life and death do not wait for legal action. —Daphne du Maurier

the perpetual disruptive nature of youth generally. "Desolation," yes, but also a child's sense of immediacy, the capacity to enter into the moment-by-moment flow of life as it unfolds, not trying to make narrative sense of one's situation, and not caring overmuch if the whole setup comes crashing down.

I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Stand-up is still my job. That is the thing I wanted to get into when I was 21. You cannot beat the immediacy of it, making people laugh without any interruptions or edits.

The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs and the here and now that, ultimately, is pretty tragic.

When people want transportation, they want it now.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

The short story can be hot and sweet or hot and fierce. You get it in one sitting or you don't get it. It's like a shore break. It happens quickly, and is right there in front of you, menacing you. First you're looking at the shore break, and then if you don't back up, it's on you. The novel is the long, low wave that you ride south from the Arctic Circle. It's powerful, but its power accumulates over a very long time as it rolls towards the reef.

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.