#instant

Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#education

Each instant of life is a step toward death. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#each #instant #life #life is a #step

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love. ↗

— Ice Cube

#gone #instant #love #moral #people

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#born #diligence #effort #express #few

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do! ↗

— Paula Deen

#because #cook #cooking #go #i

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. ↗

— Joan Didion

#instant #life #life changes #ordinary

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #grief #indulgence #instant #life

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#feel #getting #gone #got #happened

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening. ↗

— Charles Durning

#asked #because #go #happening #i