Quotes of: Instant-gratification Keyword

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

Samantha Barks

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Natasha Lyonne

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

Patrick Demarchelier

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Alice Lowe

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Joan Didion

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.

Jim Sturgess

Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.

G.K. Chesterton

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. cummings

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

Benjamin Hoff

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Judy Holliday

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.

Chad Hurley

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Donny Osmond

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

Antoine Lavoisier

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.

Sara Sheridan

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.

Vint Cerf

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled ...

Going Steady: Film Writings, 1968-1969

... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately eviden...

Happiness and Contemplation

All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed either by a new pain or by languor, empty y...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not he...

Robert G. Ingersoll