Immediate Quotes

831 Immediate quotes by 696 unique authors

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
... music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now ... — Sam Andrew
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood. — Unknown Author
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal… — Freddie Mercury
If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going… — Tony Robbins
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it. — Peggy Noonan
We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has… — Paul Hawken
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather… — Ezra Pound
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity. — Sri Chinmoy
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term… — Milton Friedman
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required,… — David Ricardo
In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who… — Georg Simmel
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity. — Gaston Bachelard
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted… — Thomas Merton
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have… — Mircea Eliade
Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does… — Byron White
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real… — Joseph Heller
Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends,… — Jonas Mekas
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. — Augusto Roa Bastos

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