A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.
This nation is asking for action and action now.
The nation was facing a ruined, unregulated economy with 25% unemployment.
The poor need help today, not next week.
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
When people want transportation, they want it now.
Manna today or I starve.
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
When I'm hungry, I need to eat right away.
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.
Why do we put off till tomorrow the solutions that we can reach today? People cannot postpone their hunger. Similarly, they do not want their freedom postponed.
Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful pieve of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want. -pg276
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires