A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.
Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.
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.
It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
I wear sunscreen every single day – I just don’t go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.
Television is instant gratification. We do an episode and we instantly get a reaction for the same. Theatre on the other hand is very satisfying as an actor. It is purely a few thousand people who come to watch the theatre.
The world itself is so full of changes – of negotiations, changes of position, seeing things one way, then another, gauging responses, status changes that can happen in an instant.
Television is a great medium for actors to connect with the audience. Especially on the fiction front, we can gauge and get instant feedback, which helps improve our skill sets over time.
There are songs which even if you listen to repeatedly, you don’t end up liking them, but there are some songs which have an instant connection with the listener. ‘Ruka Hoon’ is that song which instantly clicked with me.
There is no spray can called ‘Instant Stardom’, only talent can keep you at the top.
When you explain to people what you’re trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it’s just for that short time you’re on the phone.
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today’s world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.
Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We’re desperate for instant, visible, measurable ways of knowing God, instead of trusting that it’s complicated and a mystery.
Making people believe they can do great things, that’s an instant motivator.
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
When you meet somebody and you have an instant connection – why is that? Maybe you’ve met before? Maybe you’ve met in another life? Anything’s possible.
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you’re young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It’s an instant connection.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
Yeah, I could get an internet page and maybe get a thousand downloads of new songs but it’s a lot of work. I’m 57 now, I really feel like I’ve got the T-shirt. I just like performing. It’s instant. I go off, I do the show, it’s over. I like that.
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.
I am not an ‘instant’ actor… to really do anything, I’ve got to try it five or six or a dozen times.
The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It’s hard. If a joke doesn’t get a laugh, that’s instant rejection. And that’s mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.
Once you have children it’s love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?
Fashion is instant – after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That’s the nature of it.
There’s nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
Fresh seafood reminds me of Hawaii and eating raw ahi fish on the beach with a little soy sauce – instant sashimi.
When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.
There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.
From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ‘I,’ under another form, continues the task of existence.
We’re not one of those groups who have one song on the radio and, boom, they’re an instant success. We worked hard from day one and didn’t get a lot of respect, possibly because of the way we were marketed.
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.
Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.
It wasn’t an instant success. It wasn’t like I got into Earth, Wind & Fire and we stopped eating oatmeal and McDonald’s. But it was definitely a clear path on the right direction to be my own man.
Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It’s built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
It is a feel-good factor when you get an instant reaction from the audience.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.
When you’re in a seat getting your hair done, there’s this instant trust.
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.
That’s the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that’s not going to happen.
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 am very happy to be able to cross borders to go to China, to Mexico, to America, everywhere, and there is an instant understanding of what I do. This is incredibly beautiful because you’ve suddenly communicated with everyone without speaking the same language. The language of music is able to go anywhere.
I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.
I feel like I can play with any team. Whatever team that is, I feel like I can make an instant impact.
Movies require a lot of patience. I like instant results. If I have done something that’s not funny at all, the audience will let me know in two seconds. With the movie, I will have to wait nine months to know if I was that bad.
In a live show, the reaction to our jokes is instant. You know immediately whether the joke is working or not.
I definitely pack coffee if I’m going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn’t need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.
