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• I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

  Steve Jobs

  Children, Sorry, Technology

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Life is so fast and it can change in an instant.

  Elaine Cassidy

  Life Is

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• There is nothing like Integral Dreaming in the literature. This is an ambitious undertaking and its readers will gain an in-depth understanding of dreams and dreaming that they will find nowhere else. The ‘five movements’ of Integral Dream Practice will encourage many readers to follow the steps outlined, and integrate dreamwork into their own lives. This book will be an instant classic in the field.

  Stanley Krippner

  Dream, Book, Practice

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• One instant is eternity; / eternity is the now. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees.

  Wumen Huikai

  Eternity

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• Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

  Hal Boyle

  Summer, Memories, Spring

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• Because that’s the thing about the exact moment when you get somewhere that has required effort: There’s a freeze-frame instant of total fulfillment, when every expectation has been met and the world is perfect.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Perfect, Expectations, Effort

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Zero, Past

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• There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

  Carolyn Porco

  Powerful, Ocean, Other Worlds

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• ...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

  Per Petterson

  Dying, Gone, Impossible

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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• This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Vitality

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.206, 谷月社

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• You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

  Dennis Farina

  Thinking, Addiction, Want

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• What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

  Chris Martin

  Birthday, Horse, Age

  "We're about to be fed to the lions" by Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave messages for one another, these odd improvisational performances, often sorry bits and samplings of ourselves that can't help but seem out of context. And then when you do finally reach someone, everyone's so out of practice or too hopeful or else embittered that you wonder if it would be better not to attempt contact at all.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Sorry, Practice, Hopeful

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• Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Humans, Search For Meaning, Human Beings

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.129, Beacon Press

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• The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

  Karl Marx

  War, Atmosphere, Tests

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• I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And 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 of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Expression, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Inspiration, Hands, Ideas

  "The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects". Book by Giorgio Vasari, Volume 2. p. 28, 1900.

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• Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

  Ali Smith

  Google, Promise, Needs

  Ali Smith (2011). “There but for the”, p.100, Penguin UK

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• The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means - allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would take many pages and illustrations and tables to convey. Insight seems to happen most often when data sets are crossed in the design of the piece - when we can quickly see the effects on something over time, for example, or view how factors like income, race, geography, or diet might affect other data. When that happens, there's an instant "Aha!".

  David Byrne

  Mean, Race, Views

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• I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.

  Ayrton Senna

  Suffering, Cost, Want

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• In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

  Marc Andreessen

  Phones, Years, People

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Judging, Aspect, Responding

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• If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of ‘grand alpinisme’ to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs.

  Lionel Terray

  Mountain Peaks, Climbing, Goal

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