Instant Quotes

• Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Change

• Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

  

  Willy Ronis
  • Instant
  • Photographs
  • Focuses

• It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?

  

  George Julius Poulett Scrope
  • History
  • Science
  • Forever

• No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Disappear
  • Instant

• No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Age
  • Company

• We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Endless
  • Fulfillment
  • Gratification

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