#instant

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#had #his #instant #mind #own

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#collapse #energy #extinguished #fabric #instantaneously

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#better #changed #concerned #convenient #course

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#ability #because #cell #cell phones #disorganized

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#hope #instant #reaction #results #spread

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? ↗

— Paul Sweeney

#cake #cameras #dinners #exists #frozen

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #balance #because #being #between