Immediate Concerns Quotes

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

I just try to do day to day. I'm really bad like that. People get annoyed with me for not thinking far enough in advance. Not having these big, grand goals. There's so much going on in the present. I have trouble dealing with anything longer than that.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they’re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.

People don’t eat in the long run, Senator, they eat every day.

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I don't look ahead. I just worry about today.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.