Instant Gratification Quotes - Page 2

• We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.

  Donald A. Norman

  Reading, Believe, Writing

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• [Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

  Krista Tippett

  Kindness, Form, Instant

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• Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

  Darren Hardy

  Long, Payoff, Term

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Oct 24, 2014

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• Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

  Squidward Tentacles

  Fate, Long, Giving

  "Fictional character: Squidward Tentacles". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm/Squid on Strike", 2001), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

  Jeff Bezos

  Promise, Crowds, Chance

  "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like 'Game of Thrones' is a perfect example of that, or even a show like 'The Wire,' which isn't all about instant gratification it's about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you'd be invited into a theater for two hours. So I think in that way, and the quality of writing in television is probably much better than most film writing.

  Bryan Singer

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is why we believe in fidelity and why we believe in infidelity as well. It is also, of course, what makes our divorce rate as high as it is. Falling in love at first sight and instant gratification are part of the world in which we live, so there are people who believe adamantly in fidelity. They just don't believe in it for long.

  Merle Shain

  Dream, Falling In Love, Taken

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• You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it's timely and then five minutes later we're on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs also have fluidity that's exciting. You have a lot of real enthusiastic music fans for the most part that are writing sometimes for a large audience, and I think certain blogs have a little too much power over what someone likes or doesn't like.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Corporate Journalism". Interview with Bernie Dwyer, chomsky.info. October 28, 2003.

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• We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

  Adora Svitak

  School, Media, Tunes

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• Be nice to your hairstylist. It's an instant gratification! It doesn't matter how badly their day has gone, in that moment they feel amazing. And the hairdresser has made them feel that way.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Nice, Gone, Matter

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• We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hands, Population, Pursuit

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.167, John Wiley & Sons

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• Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

  Donald Barthelme

  Dripping, Seasons, Instant

  "The Bed". "Flying to America: 45 More Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 2007.

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• When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Law Of Attraction, Manifestation, Universal Laws

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• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  Eustace Conway

  Men, Media, Ideas

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• I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Expression, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.

  Jane Grigson

  Views, Expression, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

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• I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Sunday

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• What's the difference between people who feel successful and people who feel they've failed? The answer is mindset: If you learn and grow from failure, suddenly it becomes a personal asset. People who are successful don't want instant gratification. They don't think about hitting a point of success and never working again. Instead they ask, How do I improve myself and continue to do that consistently over time?

  Eben Pagan

  Success, Thinking, Differences

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• I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

  Ryan McGinley

  Photography, Independent, Mind

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• Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

  Jesse Metcalfe

  World, Fame, Decadence

  "Jesse Metcalfe's Addiction Battle". More! Magazine Interview, www.contactmusic.com. February 02, 2013.

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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