Quotations about: immediacy
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The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Second Neurotic’s Notebook , ch. 4 (1966)
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Added on 6-Jan-22 | Last updated 10-Mar-22
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Topics: courage , immediacy , moment , persistence
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Montaigne; or, The Skeptic,”
Representative Men , Lecture 4 (1850)
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Added on 25-Feb-20 | Last updated 19-Feb-22
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Topics: calm , future , history , immediacy , perspective , reassurance , significance , time
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish author
The Death of the Heart (1938)
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Added on 20-Jun-17 | Last updated 20-Jun-17
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Topics: absence , immediacy , love , memory , separation
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A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
George S. Patton (1885-1945) American soldier
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Added on 2-Nov-15 | Last updated 3-Nov-15
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Topics: action , contemplation , decision , decisive , delay , immediacy , meme , perfectionism , satisfactory , satisfice , sufficient , swiftness , vigor
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The salvation of America and of the human race depends on the next Election, if we believe the newspapers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Journal (1848-10)
Added on 16-Dec-09 | Last updated 27-Mar-23
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Topics: crisis , doom , election , immediacy , perspective , politics
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In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984) American drama critic and journalist
Once Around the Sun , “February 8” (1951)
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Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 21-Dec-22
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Topics: focus , good old days , immediacy , nostalgia , perspective , troubles
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