Quotes About Immediacy

Why wait to be memorable?

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

A lot of people get very misty-eyed about celluloid. When I think of the time that's wasted in sending it back to the lab and having it developed and brought back, it would make me insane. I love getting my hands on the stuff immediately. That doesn't work for everybody. It just works for me.

I don't make long-term plans, for sure.

The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's interesting and powerful about the mobile environment is that it's connected to services on the Internet. This augments both platforms.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.

It could be that the sort of sentence one wants right here is the kind that runs, and laughs, and slides, and stops right on a dime.

Having heard so often, and so believably, John Donne's bell tolling softly that "Thou must die," one turns more sharply to life, with an immediacy and appreciation that would not otherwise exist.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

The future is today.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing.

Stand not upon the order of your going,But go at once.

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

and she starting barking impatiently a half hour before each feeding time.

Someday is now.

For where books, for instance, always offer a thousand times more than they are, television offers exactly what it is, its essential immediacy, its ever-evolving, always-in-progress superficiality.

Presentational immediacy is our immediate perception of the contemporary external world, appearing as an element constitutive of our own experience. In this appearance the world discloses itself to be a community of actual things, which are actual in the same sense as we are.

It does not emphasize the ruling Caesar, or the ruthless moralist, or the unmoved mover. It dwells upon the tender elements in the world, which slowly and in quietness operates by love; and it finds purpose in the present immediacy of a kingdom not of this world. Love neither rules, nor is it unmoved; also it is a little oblivious as to morals. It does not look to the future; for it finds its own reward in the immediate present