Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. — Dalai Lama
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the… — Oscar Wilde
Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing.… — Christian Bale
In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how… — Shlomo Carlebach
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To… — Pema Chodron
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of… — Alan Watts
The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need. — Albert Einstein
... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a… — Stephen Jay Gould
Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings… — Justin Rosenstein
Infrastructure spending does not create immediate jobs, and more than half of those jobs will pull from the pool of the already employed. — Mark McKinnon
I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a… — Paul Johnson
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea -… — Jeff Koons
Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends… — Mark Cuban
Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without basic research as… — Wen Jiabao
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there… — Frans de Waal
I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment. — Robert Irwin
I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and… — Natalie Jeremijenko
Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I… — Natascha McElhone
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work… — Nikola Tesla
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings… — Alex Steffen
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for. — Paul Shaffer
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge… — Bat for Lashes
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise… — Sadie Jones
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you,… — Ben Schott

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