Immediacy Quotes

70 Immediacy quotes by 64 unique authors

But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness… — Ian Mcewan
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and… — Timothy Leary
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that… — Alan Lightman
Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed… — Elwyn Brooks White
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in… — Luke Davies
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own… — Dean Koontz
In stark contrast to two nights ago, when I felt Peeta was a million miles away, I'm struck by his immediacy now. As we settle… — Suzanne Collins
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death… — Pema Chodron
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we… — Heinz Pagels
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our… — Pema Chodron
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. — Paul Mellon
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. — Mike Nichols
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a… — Joe McNally
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the… — Damian Loeb
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face… — Anne Edwards
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web. — Jill Abramson
I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader,… — James Jones
The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of… — Tony Conrad
I'll always go back to the theater. It's fulfilling and there's an immediacy to it. — Gillian Jacobs

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