#instant

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#born #brief #changes #changing #children

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#enough #forge #instant #irrevocable #magic

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. ↗

— Leon Kass

#amount #companies #direct #enormous #instantaneous

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#bigger #clearer #himself #his #instant

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#formula #imagination #instantly #me #need

I'm real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I'm completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#being #completely #critical #go #head

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex. ↗

— Tim Reid

#even #instant #kids #sex #taking

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#drive #instant-gratification #purpose #resistance #art

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#cross #false #friends #instant #into

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. ↗

— Joan Didion

#instant #life #life changes #ordinary