Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee… — Marcus Buckingham
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely… — Charles Lindbergh
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search… — Marshall McLuhan
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we… — Tom Robbins
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or… — Larry Norman
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will… — Monty Oum
Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances. — Jane Siberry
I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea. — Mike McCready
Jesus is no longer one to be accepted or invited in but one who is infinitely worthy of our immediate and total surrender. — David Platt
We need to teach people to refuse to install non-free plug-ins; we need to teach people to care more about their long-term interest of freedom… — Richard Stallman
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion. — John Milton
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany… — Douglas Hurd
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of… — Douglas Hurd
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived… — Ludwig von Mises
The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and… — Billy Tauzin
We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about. — Bethany Hamilton
Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature… — Carl Jung
There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback. — Mary McCormack
Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of… — Aldous Huxley
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse… — Benjamin Franklin
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is… — Mark Strand
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was… — Eddie Van Halen
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey

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