Immediacy Quotes

• Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

  Theodore Roethke

  Reality, Dazzle, Too Much

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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• The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

  Chuck D

  Writing, Technology, Reality

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• Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Doe, Needs, Cinema

  "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.

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• I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.

  Lukas Haas

  Writing, Waiting, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Ears, Whispering, Radio

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.

  Nick Denton

  Thinking, Media, People

  "Search And Destroy" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Integrity, Mean, Consequence

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• The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Magnification, Humans

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• We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, Technology, Evil

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Climbing, Priorities In Life, Helping

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• Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

  William O'Rourke

  Regret, Reflection, Emotional

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• Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Cancer, Events, Action

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

  Eugene Field

  Ideas, Birth, Pendulums

  "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

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• Never finish a negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.12, GENERAL PRESS

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• You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, People, Ordinary

  "Fright club" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2005.

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• I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Tyrants, Tyranny

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• People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, School, People

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• But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

  Donald Judd

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

  Jill Abramson

  Voice, Effects, Blogs

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• What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

  Tom Cruise

  Play, Actors, Too Much

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

  Paul McGann

  Real, Telling Stories, Tough

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• I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Challenges, Modern Family

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Past, Cities, Urgent

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• Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sunshine, Redemption, Action

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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