Quotes of Immediate - somelinesforyou

“ Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ”

- Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

“ The inifinite is in the finite of every instant. ”

- Zen Saying

“ It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”

- Ernest Dimnet

“ There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ”

- George Carlin

“ I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back. ”

- Albert Camus

“ How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind? ”

- Douglas Adams

“ The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. ”

- Stephen R. Covey

“ A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision. ”

- Cavett Robert

“ A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. ”

- Augusto Roa Bastos

“ As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ He who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given… in any other stage of human life can possibly give again. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ 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 sense of what it is to be a human being. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ”

- Brendan Francis

“ It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? ”

- Eileen Aitkins

“ Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit. ”

- Henry L. Doherty

“ Research is subordinated is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. ”

- Walter Modell

“ The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ 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 than no sort. ”

- Ezra

“ The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints — and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things. ”

- Sir Hugh Walpole

“ The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. ”

- James Baldwin

“ To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ”

- Sir Richard Steele
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