When you cut human beings down to size, we’re really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they’re about gratification.
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
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.
I think the ability and the knowledge to be able to defend yourself builds confidence. Also there’s great gratification in the sweat and work you get from any combat training.
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.
I think we’re all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification – education, hard work, success, and ambition – are those groups that succeed in America, regardless of discrimination.
There’s a reason why VOD is so popular. You don’t have to wait. There’s instant gratification.
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates and well-toned arms.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
Even though I had the talent, programming just didn’t feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn’t.
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.
More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at you feels really good.
Working is not instantly rewarding. It’s a long process, and it’s much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
I’ve been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children’s hero for so long.
We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it’s akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
We must accept all of God’s will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.
As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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.
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.
Now most of ‘Alice’ isn’t really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture we’re involved in is fascinated with very quick fixes and instant gratification.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
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