Immediate Quotes
831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors
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The immediate problem is, where will the doctors come from?
— Sarah Weddington
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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities…
— Walter Bonatti
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
— Joseph Epstein
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Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile…
— Mother Teresa
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Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to…
— Bertrand Russell
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
— William Hazlitt
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The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
— Carl Jung
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by…
— Isaac Asimov
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.
— William Shakespeare
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Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is…
— Rajneesh
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut…
— Pietro Aretino
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Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds…
— Steve Pavlina
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a…
— Byron Katie
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No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of…
— Willis R. Whitney
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the…
— Louis Pasteur
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In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed…
— Edward Teller
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I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism ... but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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