Quotes About Immediacy

In the TV business, you've got to write fast, and someone will tell you, 'Can you rewrite this episode before... 6 P.M.?' So that's when you rewrite it. You can't wait for the muse to show up.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

I'm so in love with you, baby, we need to get married immediately. You don't just cook in the kitchen and bake, you actually grill.

Come on, Daddy, turn it on, stop teasing!

Als je het opschrijft, staat het meteen op papier ook.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page.

Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.

If love in society is to represent a better one, it cannot do so as a peaceful enclave, but only by conscious opposition. This, however, demands precisely the element of voluntariness that the bourgeois, for whom love can never be natural enough, forbid it. Loving means not letting immediacy wither under the omnipresent weight of mediation and economics, and in such fidelity it becomes itself mediated, as a stubborn counter-pressure. He alone loves who has the strength to hold fast to love.

For me there's no future. All I'm interested in is now.

No matter what happens, it's always now.

Sometimes what happened now was more important to her than what would happen later, so to hell with it.

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The danger for high-achieving people is that they'll unconsciously allocate their resources to activities that yield the most immediate, tangible accomplishments.

La influencia inmediata de una determinada conducta siempre es más eficaz que las palabras.

Music goes straight for things. It says all there is to say at once. With writing it seems to me there's so much... scratching on the matchbox

It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?

I shall be there before the commencement.

It's not what if, it's what now.

Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It's not that much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs us and places us directly in the moment.

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.

Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words.

Let us leave all theories there and return to here's here.