Erica Jong

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

American Novelist

Tony Robbins

The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.

American Speaker

Jennifer Ellison

I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

English Actress

Graham Nash

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

British Musician

Erica Mena

That's what it is, once you find a man that loves you, you instantly have no choice but to give him all the respect in the world.

Hope Davis

It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.

American Actress

Ice Cube

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

American Musician

Joan Didion

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

American Author

James Huneker

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

American Writer

Pierre Corneille

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

French Dramatist

Use 'instant' when describing something that happens right away, without any delay.

Immediate Response

'Instant' suggests quickness, but not always literally in a split second; context matters.

Not Instantaneous

'Instant' as a noun emphasizes the briefness of time, like a flash.

Short Duration

Use 'instant' to highlight an event's quick occurrence, often unexpectedly.

Momentary Event

'Instant' products don't need preparation or have been largely pre-prepared.

No Preparation

'Instant' items are designed for convenience, often used when in a hurry.

Convenience Focus

'Instant' means something is so pressing it should be dealt with right away.

Need for Action

An 'instant' matter carries a high level of importance, demanding focus.

Intensity of Priority

 working as a night janitor I instantly identified and showed it other the other students as a matter of fact we decide to start a little impostor support group we started meeting and talking about big intellectual frauds and how we're fooling all of our professors and everything went great for about three

Thinking your way out of...

 each electron on the far side is detected at a single place at a specific instant, like a particle. But if you repeat this experiment many times, keeping track of all the individual detections, you'll see them trace out a pattern that's characteristic of wave

Schrödinger's cat: A...

 occur too quickly for most living creatures to adapt, causing thousands of species to die off in a geological instant. We call this a mass extinction event, and although such events may be rare, paleontologists have been able to identify several of them

When will the next mass...

 When he fixes you with those eyes, you just can't help -It's quite intimidating. -It is, yeah. -All right. -Napoleon's on a hair-trigger. He could go from kitten to killer in an instant. He's a bit mental. -You expect a bit of a reaction. -Yeah.

Attacked by a Lion? PIPE...

 and we know instantly what it would feel like if the sky were a fabric sewn shut. They can live in adjectives, too. "Still waters run deep," we say of someone quiet and thoughtful. And the deep matters as much as the stillness and the water do.

The art of the metaphor...

 ruling over impoverished masses. The new century brought more exciting and terrifying changes. Medical advances made it possible to transcend biological limits while mass media allowed instant communication between leaders and the public.

How to recognize a...

 Vanuatu we were there to investigate how quickly microbial colonization happens on rocks we certainly wouldn't imagine that there is life in the lava lake itself just way too hot for anything to happen but the instant the rock cools to

Drones Sacrificed for...

 for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that." The good life is built with good relationships.

Robert Waldinger: What...

 She manages to hit her chosen target almost instantly every time. Luna is a young dolphin and as such a little bit more motivated. She she likes to play, to investigate things,

Super Smart Dolphin...

 the soldiers protect the trail at any cost although blind they are highly sensitive to vibrations and air currents and become instantly defensive when

Instant

Happening immediately.

Often appears as...

A very short moment of time.

Often appears as...

Ready-made or available for use immediately.

Often appears as...

Urgent; requiring immediate attention.

Often appears as...

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Immediate Response

Not Instantaneous

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