Quotes About Immediacy

The more suddenly you act the less effort will be needed.

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now.

The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.

What is it like to be mortal?" Startled, she took a second to think, to consider. "Life is much more immediate. When you have a time limit, every moment gains an importance that an immortal will never know.

For a man like Bar-Avo, everything is a constant present.

When you're in the moment everything you want is right.

Our indulgence in the pleasures of informality and immediacy has led to a narrowing of expressiveness and a loss of eloquence.

vastly overvalue what happens to us right now,

Our indulgence in the pleasures of informality and immediacy has led to a narrowing of expressiveness and a loss of eloquence.19

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

date on such short notice.

The practice of improvisation (in contrast, say, to that of writing or painting) teaches something that we are hungry to understand: how to be in harmony with one another and how to have fun. We practice improvisation not only to "express ourselves" but to connect with others in a more immediate way.

Now!" Elodin shouted without preamble. "Tell me things!

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to get lost, become one with somewhere else, slip a wreath on a steeple top solely because I wished it.

I liked the immediacy, the transmutation of energy. I liked the task of drawing from oneself. One's ancestors. One's God. To be a human saxophone. 'Birdland' is an example of how a lyric is composed in the studio. It is the result of the trust built between musicians, requiring communal selflessness in order to draw from the collective intelligence.

Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.

These diverse stories of the past that we find in the Bible are not a problem to be solved. They model for us the spiritual immediacy of the present.