Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and has stimulated the hope of instant results.
It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.
I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.
Things can happen very quickly in football.
It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
I just know when I get in the game, I've got to be instant impact off the bench.
It's hard to come off the bench and be ready all the time.
That's what I love about music. It's immediate. There's a connection whether you are playing at Hyde Park or Chicago, and it's been happening since the beginning of time and the troubadours.
A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.
In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
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.
When you score in the first minutes, everything changes.
All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.
Videos are all about making an impression in the moment. If you're lucky, you make a classic that people talk about for years.
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
I think when you're starting you have more of a luxury. You know you're going to play 33, 35, 37 minutes per game, so you can kind of feel the game out. When you come off the bench you have to be more in attack mode. You have to make something happen immediately.
