Instant Quotes - Page 25

• From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Exercise, Men, Rights

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1973). “The social contract: and, Discourses”, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd

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• [Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

  Krista Tippett

  Kindness, Form, Instant Gratification

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• When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Educational, Writing, Broken

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• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas

  Dan Hill

  Jobs, School, Long

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• ...when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Looks, Judgmental, Made

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.185, Macmillan

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• A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Stories, Scent, Emotion

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be.

  Erol Alkan

  Quality, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a writer was certainly freer because I wasn't worried, I didn't have commenters on me right from the get-go. I didn't have this instant-reaction culture that young writers have to deal with now. I had different things - I was listed in the phone book and people would look me up and call me and yell at me, but that was about as bad as it got.

  Meghan Daum

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our party has failed in going in to those places because we`ve said, well, we don`t get instant gratification back. So therefore, why go there. And we need to go there, show up and campaign in places where we`re uncomfortable.

  Chris Christie

  Party, Needs, Campaigns

  "Melissa Harris-Perry", www.msnbc.com. January 10, 2016.

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• Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

  Kate Christensen

  Voice, Waiting, Anxiety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I made my first website when I was ten. I flirted using instant messages all throughout high school. I like the Internet. I like cuddling. I like my cell phone. I like awkward eye contact with strangers. I like hearing people's voices. I like parties. I like Craigslist. These things don't seem technologically exclusive to me.

  Chelsea Martin

  Party, School, Eye

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

  Ariel Winter

  Weight, Chests

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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  I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Love Is, Something New

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.

  Andy Bell

  Artist, Radio, Stuff

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• Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.

  Mike Vallely

  Communication, Men, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, People, Consciousness

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I'm glad that my journey has been gradual and slow, instead of instant, because that allowed me to grow and discover who I am before I was thrown into the world. I'm happy I didn't start acting professionally as a kid/teen; looking back, I don't think I was ready.

  Jade Hassoune

  Kids, Thinking, Journey

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

  Rob Brown

  Judging, People, Response

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Track, Choices, Musician

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Stars, Numbers, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Sheena Iyengar". bigthink.com.

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• The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

  Mike Dooley

  Long, Change For The Better, Obsession

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• A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Powerful, Light, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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