“ It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind? ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision. ”
- Cavett Robert- Copy
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“ A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. ”
- Augusto Roa Bastos- Copy
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“ As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
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“ Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ He who helps a child helps humanity with an immediateness which no other help given… in any other stage of human life can possibly give again. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. ”
- Pat Riley- Copy
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“ Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
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“ It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? ”
- Eileen Aitkins- Copy
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“ Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit. ”
- Henry L. Doherty- Copy
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“ Research is subordinated is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. ”
- Walter Modell- Copy
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“ The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints — and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things. ”
- Sir Hugh Walpole- Copy
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“ The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
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