Quotes About Immediacy

Sudden things are prepared for.

Cathy le dijo que la tarea más importante en la vida era limpiar los propios actos, comprometerse totalmente con la realidad, poner toda la energía en el presente y hacerlo ahora, inmediatamente.

Cathy told her that the most important thing in life was to clean up one's own mess, commit oneself a hundred percent to reality, place all one's energy in the present moment, and to do so right now, immediately.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

When I am excited about a song I want to release it rather than wait to build up an album.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

My head is full of songs I'm writing now, and things I am thinking now. I'm not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I'm very much in right now.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

A squeeze occurs when people have no choice but to do something, and do it right away, regardless of the costs.

A writer is not a writer because he has written some books. A writer is not a writer because he teaches literature. A writer is only a writer if he can write now, tonight, this minute.

Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.

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

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

Right then, the future was barely an hour long.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

They deliver right away and with no pain. Just like horses. The young ones smiled a little.

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

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But don't wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.

The chaos in my head spun itself into a silk of silence. I had distilled myself to the immediacy of hand, blade, blood, flesh.

Of course, she'd also heard that rakes enjoyed the chase, the thrill of pursuing a reluctant woman, and she'd just scotched any prospect of that. But when she thought of how long it would take to entice Liam into wanting her, then pursuing her, pretending reluctance, before finally succumbing… Who had time for that? She wanted to know now.