In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
Instant gratification takes too long.
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.
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.
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.
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.