Instant Quotes - Page 18

• Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Doe, Transformation

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• Instant replay is going to be awesome. For too long, tennis has been stuck in its traditions, which is part of its strength as a game. But you have to be able to change some things and get fans interested.

  Patrick McEnroe

  Games, Long, Tennis

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• The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.207

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• There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, Presence Of Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.354, Рипол Классик

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• Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Country, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• One instant is eternity; eternity is the now.

  Wumen Huikai

  Men, Eternity

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• Love is... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.

  Mike Oldfield

  Love, Kings, Men

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• A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

  H. L. Mencken

  Change, Loyalty, Time

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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• Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Women, Heart, Reflection

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• Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Flower, Garden, Perfect

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
  By the Ponte Vecchio . . .
  Changing guard.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Way, Bats, Wavering

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6446, Delphi Classics

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• How can one explain all the time and thought that goes into raising a child, all the opportunities for mistakes, all the chances to recover and try again? How does one break the news that nothing permanent can be formed in an instant--children are not weaned, potty trained, taught manners, introduced to civilization in one or two tries--as everyone imagined.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Mistake, Opportunity

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• This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much Western theology has devoted itself. This is a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, moment-to-moment act of supreme consciousness. It is a choosing and a re-choosing every instant. It is ongoing creation. Conscious creation. Creation with a purpose. It is using the tools of creation we have discussed, and using them with awareness and sublime intention.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.112, Penguin

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• For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose - is choosing - its own destiny this instant.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Destiny

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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• It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Doe, Pudding, Management

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• My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

  Faye Kellerman

  Community, Investing, Sulky

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• To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

  Olive Schreiner

  Prayer, Sunday, Loss

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have that instant's hesitation about coming across the bag at second or about standing in there awaiting a throw to make a tag. There are only 27 outs in a ballgame, and it was my job to save one for my team every time I possibly could.

  Frank Robinson

  Running, Jobs, Team

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh seize the instant time; you never will
  With water once passed by impel the mill.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Past, Water, Mills

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1865). “Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew”, p.303

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

  Johann Ludwig Tieck

  Running, Destiny, Years

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• Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Space, Worry

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• A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Dream, Hurt

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• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

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