Zitat des Tages über Sofortige Befriedigung / Instant Gratification:
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
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.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.
I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.
I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
When I was writing my dissertation, 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.
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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.
Instant gratification takes too long.
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.