Quotes About Immediacy

When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins.

Promoting short-termism. Measured performance encourages what Robert K. Merton called "the imperious immediacy of interests … where the actor's paramount concern with the foreseen immediate consequences excludes consideration of further or other consequences."3 In short, advancing short-term goals at the expense of long-range considerations.

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.

We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.

Aim for believable growth, take immediate and ongoing action, under promise and over deliver, and work only on stuff that matters, and your financial destiny will prove to be a lot closer than you think! In fact, it's right around the corner...  

Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.

I only like doing live telly. It's great because you go in and do it and then go home. No edit, no retakes.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Photographs thrust home the fact of our mortality. We look at faces and limbs warm or tense with life, knowing full well that they are now dust. Sound haunts me even more. I can look at a photo of Maria Callas and accept the fact that she is dead, but I am bewildered when I hear her voice coming out of my CD player. For that voice, quivering with immediacy and passion, is the quintessence of life-of what it means to be fully alive.

Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It's all we really get, she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she'd ever said.

No pienso nunca en el futuro porque llega muy pronto.

Like a muezzin in his minaret, one of the talking birds began to shout from the tall palm beyond the mango trees, "Here and now, boys. Here and now, boys.

La gente registra la convinzione, tipicamente barbara, che il passato è utile solo quando e dove può diventare, immediatamente presente.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.