Instant Quotes - Page 7

• The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Instant Replay, Lows

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• It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

  Lennie Tristano

  Kind, Composing, Formulas

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• If we live in the here and now, each moment is a surprise, every instant a new wonder. But it often fails to work this way. Onto the present we superimpose our expectations and opinions, based on the past or future. We meet someone, and we already anticipate what he/she will be like and what they will say.

  Piero Ferrucci

  Past, Expectations, Way

  Piero Ferrucci (2007). “The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life--Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Penguin

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• I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.

  Carlo Carra

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.

  Glenn Turner

  Fun, Coffee, Believe

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• We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

  Jim Trelease

  Coffee, Adults, Pudding

  Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.54, Penguin

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• The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Reality, Recognition, Intuitive

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• That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Disappear, Feels, Permanent

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.

  John Thorn

  Instant Replay, Replay

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• Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

  Gao Xingjian

  Reality, Perception, Persons

  Gao Xingjian (2010). “Soul Mountain”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.

  Susan Sontag

  Photograph, Maxims, Subjects

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Sir, when two people have the extraordinary quality of this state, words are not necessary. Where that quality of love exists, words become unnecessary. There is instant communication.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, People

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Can Humanity Change?: J. Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Buddhists”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.

  Ken McCarthy

  People, Want, Pages

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• The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Trying, Locks, Frozen

  Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

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• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  Seth Godin

  Understanding, Important, Instant Replay

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• Rock & roll is instant coffee.

  Bob Geldof

  Coffee, Rocks, Instant Coffee

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• Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Soul, Intuition

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Spring, Debt, Causes

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, People, Parent

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

  John de Ruiter

  Able, Openness, Softness

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• Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Matthew Henry, Noah Webster (2018). “Matthew Henry Study Bible - Revised King James Version”, p.1505, Importantia Publishing

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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  Patricia Richardson

  Decision, Parent, Balance

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

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Scripts, Tvs

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

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