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Instant Gratification Quotes

We’ve collected the best Instant Gratification Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Josh Trank, Noam Chomsky, Taylor Louderman, Joe McNally, Dakota Fanning. Use them as an inspiration.

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We live in a time where there’s a required instant gratification from audiences. That’s a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you’re actually giving away.
Josh Trank
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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
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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.
Taylor Louderman
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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.
Joe McNally
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
Dakota Fanning
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We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what’s so awesome about images vs. videos is that instant gratification.
Alan Schaaf
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The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don’t make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.
Jerry Weintraub
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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
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When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
Gene Simmons
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I need instant gratification.
Barbra Streisand
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Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
Clive Sinclair
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Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it’s akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
Josh Radnor
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Questlove
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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.
Gord Downie
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
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Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Raymond Arroyo
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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.
Ann Rinaldi
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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.
Judith Krantz
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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.
Greg Ginn
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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
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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.
Jeremy Renner
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Wanda Sykes
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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.
Richard Schiff
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The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn’t new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms.
Mary Pilon
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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.
Trish Stratus
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There’s a reason why VOD is so popular. You don’t have to wait. There’s instant gratification.
Jordan Gavaris
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Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn’t seen before.
Jesse Metcalfe
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Music is instant gratification in its purest form.
Greg Iles
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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
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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.
Bat for Lashes