#immediate

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#characters #circumstances #drama #engage #enlightened

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #deeper #digestive #discovery #expected

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#clear #clouds #cocktail #complicated #goes

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #command #focus #giant #idea

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue. ↗

— Donna Dixon

#continue #gives #i #i love #immediate

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#i #immediately #quite #things

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#deadlines #down #every #few #good