If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops.
Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.
That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.
The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
Not everything has to be immediate.
What I like about the internet, what I see there is that its much more democratic. I have much more control, and if what I write is liked by the public, I have immediate feedback. There are so many things I want to say - about events in the news, politics, the gamesmanship and manipulations I read about, thoughts that occur to me about the power game, advice, on and on.
My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.
The seat of faith. . . is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses. You see without assistance from the eyes, over distances beyond the visual horizon. There are moments when existence appears independent even of the mind. The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.
That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.
Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.
I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.
Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.