Quotes About Immediacy

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!

TV is the only thing that's really alive, because it's happening as you go. You don't know the end, so another day brings a new life to it. Unlike a play, unlike a movie, where you know the beginning, middle, and end.

When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.

Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.

A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.

Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.

I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact I can get through to a call centre and then hold for 15 minutes, I don't get that upset. My kids won't. They want to know the answer to their question now. As a company you have to provide an answer to that consumer.

I remember when 'Stranger Things' came out, if I had to watch one episode a week, I wouldn't have been nearly as into it as I was when I just sat there and watched the whole thing in, like, two days.

It's not enough to use information for "something"—it needs to be immediate and important.

A sense of immediacy prevails in the society of enjoyment to such an extent that events seem meaningless—as if they occur outside of any context that might allow us to decipher them. What is lacking is a sense of universality that would mediate particular events and render them comprehensible.

Work gets done on the basis of its urgency alone.

When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough stuff.

But here's what physicists tell us. Things, in the quantum world, do not happen in steps. They happen immediately.

On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

The renouncing of life and immediacy, which was the premise for the progress of natural science since Newton, formed the real basis for the bitter struggle which Goethe waged against the physical optics of Newton. It would be superficial to dismiss this struggle as unimportant: there is much significance in one of the most outstanding men directing all his efforts to fighting against the development of Newtonian optics.

Say it! No ideas but in things.

ANY MOMENT CALLED NOW IS ALWAYS FULL OF POSSIBLES. AT

I do what I can the moment I can.

calls "undue salience" to the sale, just because it's about to end.