Quotes About Immediacy

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.

Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

I'm a huge pop music lover. I do love the immediacy, the organic fever that happens when a pop track is so infectious.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.

I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

Remember: I am not asking you to believe these yarns at all. We know how much nonsense gets published these days, do we not? I am merely asking that you observe in yourself the strength and immediacy of the impulse to deny at once. Does this impulse vary according to the weight of the circumstantial evidence (such as it is) or according to how much your own imprinted and conditioned reality-tunnel is challenged?

A sense of urgency comes from a powerful connection to the present

Nonetheless, onward is just another way of saying the time is now.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

To write past events in the present tense adds immediacy to your prose. ~Yvonne Blackwood

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

It's about time. We don't have all day, you know.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things… You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

At last they were near enough to see properly. The children

Call a random number and say "Get ready because I am". Call back in 10 minutes and ask if they are ready yet.