Instantaneous Quotes - Page 2

• In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.

  Paul Weller

  Past, Paris, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• A mutual friend knew that we were both [with Iman Abdulmajid] on our own, with broken marriages and with children. We were brought to dinner one night. . . . It was absolutely instantaneous. I couldn't get her out of my mind . . . sleepless nights - real 18-year-old stuff.

  David Bowie

  Children, Real, Night

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Kindness, Believe, Yoga

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• Harry Potter, he sends a message on Owl Mail while us poor old muggles have to make do with instantaneous emails and texting. Oh, if only we could be like you Harry Potter, with your four day owl delivery!

  Craig Ferguson

  Owl, Email, Muggles

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• Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

  Bart Yates

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• ‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

  Kevin Kelly

  Fashion, Taken, Reflection

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.70, Basic Books

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• In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Impact, Competition

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

  Paul Virilio

  Winning, Messages, Digital

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.143, Verso

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Memorable, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grateful, Adversity, Hatred

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Lying, Weakness, Information

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• I train hard every day, you know. And some days are better than others. Sometimes I punch someone in the face and sometimes I get punched in the face. But I can deal with that outcome because it's instantaneous. It's in the moment and you can learn.

  CM Punk

  Train Hard, Faces, Outcomes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  Taylor Swift

  Giving, Way, Slow Motion

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.

  Clara Barton

  Country, Organization, Humanity

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• What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

  John Green

  Pain, Real, Heart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.110, Penguin

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• Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Film, Process

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Evil, Doe, Consideration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.172, University of Chicago Press

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• What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection.

  Juliette Lewis

  Light, Rocks, People

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• The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Writing, Thinking

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• To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.

  Eben Alexander

  Past, Thinking, Self

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• God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.

  Neva Coyle

  Dream, Phantoms, Doe

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• You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!

  Brian Blade

  Beautiful, Play, Missing

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• A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility of two thing being in the same location (place). The law of the 'proper' rules in the place: the elements taken into consideration are beside one another, each situated in its own 'proper' and distinct location, a location it defines. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Order, Law

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Book, Passing Moments

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