Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. — Joan Didion
By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught. — Walt Whitman
Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat! — Andy Andrews
Because in a split second, it's gone. — Ayrton Senna
The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness. — Gail Sheehy
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys. — Thomas Traherne
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. — R. D. Laing
Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. — Buddha
Short Instantaneous Quotes
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy. — R. C. Sproul
I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. — Clarice Lispector
I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous. — Judith Hanson Lasater
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? — Bill Watterson
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity. — Joseph Rago
Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
The power of giving is instantaneous, continuous and eternal. — Azim Jamal
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. — Robert Frank
I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere. — Kurt Vile
Instantaneous Image Quotes
Instability Quotes
Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits. — Hyman Minsky
Youth → broken DNA → genome instability → disruption of DNA packaging and gene regulation — David Sinclair
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan
Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it. — Hyman Minsky
I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States. — Bernie Sanders
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. — George Osborne
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. — Milton Friedman
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged. — Fritjof Capra
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite. — G. Stanley Hall
Instigators Quotes
Let our behaviour not be instigated by forces from outside, but be born out of an internal value-based choice. — Mahatria Ra
I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression. — Sally Kirkland
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. — Liu Xiaobo
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. — Charles Evans Hughes
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. — O. Henry
I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. — Mwai Kibaki
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome — Suetonius
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play. — Uta Hagen
I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator. — Lebbeus Woods
Instagram Quotes
If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows. — Casey Neistat
Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. — Meek Mill
You are not defined by an Instagram photo, by a 'Like,' by a comment. That does not define you. — Selena Gomez
I gained 2 pounds of muscle mass looking at Jocko Willink's Instagram. — Theo Von
YouTube is the vlogs and my life, then Instagram is comedy skits and pictures that I take. Twitter's text, and Instagram Stories is even more behind-the-scenes vlog stuff. I'm always posting. — Jake Paul
Reddit is the smart man's Instagram, and the dumb man's twitter. — Steven Gundry
I've seen so many people on Instagram lose all of their followers because they were doing constant collaborations. They were only getting paid $100 dollars per post. That doesn't make any sense. — Jake Paul
I've seen news organizations outright just take photos from Instagram and use it for news without credit, without permission. — Tim Pool
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory — Daniel Kahneman
I was on Instagram or something and I checked my tagged photos, and I realized that suddenly they were all LGBT artwork. I was like, "Oh, my god!" I had no idea. It was the first time I realized I was a figure for that community. — Alycia Debnam Carey
Instant Communication Quotes
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. — Alvin Adams
When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. — Nikola Tesla
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. — Stephen Covey
I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower. — William Westmoreland
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
Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. — Richie Havens
Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul. — Vivek Wadhwa
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. — Edward Abbey
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. — Mike Fitzpatrick
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication. — Mike Fitzpatrick
Instant Connection Quotes
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. — Judith Wright
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection. — Paul Merton
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails. — Robert Bly
Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind. — Wallace D. Wattles
I met Kaz in the mid 1980s when we invited him and other artists to the Ojai Foundation with Thich Nhat Hanh. I felt an instant connection with him, and since that time we have collaborated on many projects and have become good friends and allies in the work of nonviolence. — Joan Halifax
When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection. — Madonna Ciccone
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard. — P. K. Subban
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment. — Sarah Dessen
So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind. — Wallace D. Wattles
You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people. — Madchen Amick
Instant Coffee Quotes
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. — Steven Wright
Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day was linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee. 27% lower all-cause mortality - ground coffee, 11% lower all-cause mortality - instant, 14% lower all-cause mortality - decaf. — Rhonda Patrick
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. — Hunter S. Thompson
There sure are a lot of these 'instant' products on the market. Instant coffee, instant tea, instant pudding, instant cereal... instant dislike. — Charles M. Schulz
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. — Bill Bryson
Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas. — David Lynch
We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults. — Jim Trelease
We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer. — Mike Conaway
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. — Elie Wiesel
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. — Samuel Morse
They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life. — Miki Dora
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving. — Gail Tsukiyama
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. — Elizabeth Kostova
Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content. — Paul Virilio
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death. — A. C. Bradley
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. — John Drummond
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. — Ethel Barrymore
...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust. — Alberto Moravia
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing. — Alexis Carrel
I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. — Anthony Doerr
I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously... — Lee De Forest
If I wanted to connect like I do now, I'd have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It's fun, but it's also a very powerful thing. — Donnie Wahlberg
Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. — Jean Baudrillard
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
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass. — Boyd K. Packer
I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere. — Paul Weller
Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. — Clifford Stoll
I train hard every day, you know. And some days are better than others. Sometimes I punch someone in the face and sometimes I get punched in the face. But I can deal with that outcome because it's instantaneous. It's in the moment and you can learn. — CM Punk
In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet. — Paul Weller
Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack. — Noam Chomsky
We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.' — Tony Robbins
You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest! — Brian Blade
What I get in rock 'n' roll that I don't get in movies is that connection with people. With music it's instantaneous, and just to watch people light up, it's really amazing. I love that connection. — Juliette Lewis
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
The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout. — Claude Monet
You may have expected that enlightenment would come ZAP! instantaneous and permanent.This is unlikely.After the first ah ha expereince, it can be thougth of as a thinning of a layer of clouds. — Ram Dass
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them. — Katherine Anne Porter
Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time. — Jojo Moyes
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
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. — Leon Kass
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time. — Itzhak Perlman
Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required. — Thomas S. Monson
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension. — Horace Mann
A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance. — Clement Greenberg
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