In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.
Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.
I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.
Not everything has to be immediate.
Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.
The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count.
Most choices are driven by immediate results.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. " "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. " "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. " "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.
Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.