#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

Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#always #among #armaments #demand #disarmament

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#immediate #nobody #past #philosophies #seriously

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 got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#could #dollars #eat #got #high

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#communications #delivering #developing #example #for example

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

That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#because #become #brought #comfort #did