#instantaneous

My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#bum #call #change #could #doctor

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#characterized #heady #instantaneous #sixties #solutions

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#instantaneous #learning #time #waste #waste time

Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#baking #generally #instantaneously #kitchen #short

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#art #back #band #came #connected

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

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right. ↗

— Andy Gibb

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The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

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Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

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