The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.
I bring immediate impact off the court as much as I do on the court.
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
I just know when I get in the game, I've got to be instant impact off the bench.
I bring a lot to a team. I bring immediate impact. As far as my skillset, I can attack defenders in multiple ways and get my teammates involved.
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
Unhealthy meals don't just cause internal damage decades down the road, but right here and now, within hours of going into your mouth.
The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.
A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
I think the Internet has definitely made it easier for people to have stuff seen, but it's also encouraged a level of ADD, where you see so much that if it doesn't make an impact on you immediately, you don't look at it.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
Violence often brings about momentary results.
And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.
The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
