Quotes About Immediacy

Truly great images make all the other millions of images you look at unimportant. You gotta look at an image and understand it in a nanosecond.

That's what makes live TV exciting - the unknown!

One of the great things about stargazing is that it's immediately at hand for so many people. You know, you could get into scuba diving or bird watching, but the stars are always up there.

The stage is that immediate rush of energy you get from the audience. Also, doing something in chronology - something that starts and finishes the same night. In television, you work toward the one scene, you shoot it, and then you have to forget about it because you have to worry about the next scene.

On the stage it is always now.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

People like things they can do now, not just think about.

Si può giocare tutto il giorno, ma sentirsi molto più seri di chiunque altro. Prendere sul serio l'essenza e l'immediatezza della vita con un'ingenuità propria solo dei bambini.

There is no later. This is later.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.

Will you do it later or will you do it now?

There is no such thing as the future until it is the present.

We shall not wait for tomorrow. The future is always beginning now...

Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Tolstoy's belief that true understanding only existed in the present and events were decided "on the instant." This is why Kutuzov's best advice before the battle was to get a good night's sleep: immediate attentiveness to unfolding possibilities was going to be more valuable than forward planning.11