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Quotes About Immediacy

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
Las cosas importantes a observar deben ser visibles y estar señaladas con claridad; los resultados de cada acto deben ser inmediatamente evidentes.
~ Donald A. Norman
The problem is, you think you have time.
~ Jack Kornfield
We must always be on the lookout for scene goals that are too small to allow for sufficient scope of disaster. Just as obviously, we must guard against allowing our heroes to pick goals of such magnitude that the scope of scene disaster will destroy them. Another goal-selection error can be found in picking a goal which cannot logically lead to a scene-ending result with any immediacy
~ Unknown
En qué lugar, en dónde, a qué deshoras me dirás que te amo? Esto es urgente porque la eternidad se nos acaba.
~ Unknown
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.
~ Luke Davies
If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.
~ John Grisham
I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
~ Renee Fleming
There is nothing more urgent than now. Because later might never come. Life isnt long enough to speak of the next opportunity, rather than the now thats before our eyes.
~ Unknown
love which, ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come)?
~ Marcel Proust
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.
~ Elizabeth David
Hay ayeres y mañanas, pero no hay hoyes
~ Mario Benedetti
Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
~ Theodore Bikel
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.
~ B. Alan Wallace
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
~ William Allen White
Go for today, don't worry about the future, it'll come eventually
~ Greyson Chance
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
~ Edward Weston
For Judaism, God is not a Kantian idea but an elementally present spiritual reality—neither something conceived by pure reason nor something postulated by practical reason, but emanating from the immediacy of existence as such, which religious man steadfastly confronts and nonreligious man evades.
~ Martin Buber
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
~ Anne Edwards
Will the quality of our attention change as we read on mediums that advantage immediacy, dart-quick task switching, and continuous monitoring of distraction, as opposed to the more deliberative focusing of our attention? What concerns me as
~ Maryanne Wolf
He will come quickly; let this word be always sounding in our ear
~ Matthew Henry
The immediate moment is all that exists for them; everything must serve it, no matter whether what they ruin in the process is something they will be in dire need of the next minute.
~ Max Hastings