Immediacy Quotes

The spontaneity and immediacy would be lost. In addition, if questions are handed in a week in advance, what is the incentive for an audience to show up at all? As it is, it's hard to motivate people to come out and attend a meeting in person. - Susan Greenberg

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. - William Wilberforce

The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex. - Tony Conrad

The market was very quick to react to this information, with shares of eBay rising $11, past the $72 target we set in early July. Given this, the immediacy we felt investors should have had towards buying eBay is now somewhat diminished. - Heath Terry

Thankfully, the court understood the immediacy of this situation and temporarily stopped this law from taking effect. - Gloria Feldt

Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list. - John Berger

She wrote in wonderful longhand. We helped shape it a little. She had a natural gift, a sense of recall and immediacy when she wrote about the pleasures of cooking and hunting for wild things. - Judith Jones

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good. - William O Rourke