Immediacy Quotes

Immediacy Quote of the day

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.

The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.

I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.