Quotes About Immediacy

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

The moment to make your dreams come true is day before tomorrow, same time, called NOW.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.

There is an immediacy here which is both refreshing and startling.

You can't touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it.

Employers dislike defined benefit plans, because of the large, variable liability associated with a promise to pay remainder-of-lifetime benefits to pensioners and because of the large, variable pool of assets required to fund the liability. Employees dislike defined benefit plans, because the future stream of pension payments lacks definition and immediacy.

Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, "He's talking about the distant future. His visions won't come true for a long, long time." Therefore, tell them, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!" (Ezekiel 12:27-28 NLT)

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

The poor need help today, not next week.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Right now counts forever.