Instant Quotes - Page 23

• We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.

  Donald A. Norman

  Reading, Believe, Writing

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• I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.

  Paul Smith

  Years, House, Four

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• It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Presidential, Political

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Earth, Impossible, Corners

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.32, Modern Library

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• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

  Terence McKenna

  Limits, Bangs, Tests

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• We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

  Suzy Kassem

  Action, Failing, Conscious

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Eye, Player, Feelings

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• Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

  George Steiner

  Player, Ego, Doe

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• Whenever we give help, we unfailingly see that the answer to all our needs is already within the very situation we think is hurting us. By becoming totally open and harmless, we see that there is no one who cannot help us and no instant when we are not surrounded by God's love and His guiding presence.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Hurt, Thinking, Giving

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• The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

  James Young

  Records, Way, Internet

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• Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Boxing, Theater, Instant Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Mean, Kids, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

  Bob Myers

  Grind, Process, Enjoy

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• Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware of the very moment, the very instant that you are in; being aware of how you affect the human social, political, and natural ecology you are a part of and how it affects you. Consciousness is being informed and instructed through your groups peculiar culture on the effects of the varied ecologies on your immediate and distant ancestors, and to be aware of their interpretation of that experience.

  James Small

  Political, Peculiar, Culture

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• Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mean, Opportunity, Apples

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

  John Updike

  Men, Light, Overcoming

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Yelling, Names

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• Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

  Hannah Arendt

  Order, Giving, Facts

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• Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant.

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Challenges, Get Better

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• ...if photos can reproduce the world more perfectly than any painter, can capture an instant, a look, a gesture, then what makes a painting good anymore? Painting subverts this subversion of its traditional nature by redefining itself - art is idea, not simply skillful execution. So, a work can be crudely made, or even machine made - but it has to be practically and functionally useless.

  David Byrne

  Art, Ideas, Useless

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• In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

  Dane Cook

  Years

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• The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Metamorphosis, Photograph, Overtaking

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press

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• I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Fall, Men

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