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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more. Samuel Beckett
When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There’s going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it’s the small variations in those moments – a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage – that will be the most rewarding. James Spader
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. e. e. cummings
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell
The Deep Web contains shockingly valuable information. Can you imagine how cancer research would blossom if every researcher had instant access to every research paper done by every single university and research lab in the world? John McAfee
We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models – our fears, background and experiences – onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly. Elizabeth Thornton
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
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely. Mitch McConnell
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. Molly Ivins
‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens
Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher
I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all. Steve Jobs
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. Jake Tapper
There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant. Ted Lieu
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. John Millington Synge
If someone said I had enough money and I could take six months off, I would run in an instant. Lindsay Duncan
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. Chuck Jones
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. Glenda Jackson
I always ask for fresh coffee because instant doesn’t give you the caffeine buzz you need. Sean Lock
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. Greta Gerwig
The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication. Mike Fitzpatrick
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
Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing. Allen Klein
We’re a new show. We can’t afford instant replay. Emeril Lagasse
Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world – but our internal soundtrack doesn’t turn off. We’re also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars. Elif Batuman
There’s a reason why VOD is so popular. You don’t have to wait. There’s instant gratification. Jordan Gavaris
The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I’m a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today. Jeremy Allaire
We used to have prawn tempura: that was my mother’s favourite dish. But she had to go out to work instead of my father, so she couldn’t find the time to cook nice meals. So we ate more modern food: a lot of frozen and instant food. But I never complained about it to my mother. Hirokazu Kore-eda
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
When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world. Anushka Sharma
On every birthday, I ask my wife, ‘What would you like this year?’ and her instant reply is, ‘Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!’ I’m always living in hope that one day she’ll say she just wants me! Akshay Kumar
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Franz Kafka
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone. Loren Eiseley
I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant. Mitski
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion
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. Joan Collins
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. Alvin Adams
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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. William Gibson
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. Ted Danson
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
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
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. Judith Wright
I don’t think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It’s a world of instant gratification. Tim Cope
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
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love. Ice Cube
I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it. Steven Wright
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
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. Jerry Saltz
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book. Erik Larson
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it. Orison Swett Marden
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. Rachael Taylor
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. Jacqueline Leo
Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle
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. Lewis B. Smedes
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. Tony Robbins
We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text. Vanessa Diffenbaugh
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time – with the full protection of the law. Wil S. Hylton
To get the Red Bull junior drive was like a massive pressure off… I didn’t have to go around asking Mum and Dad to sell their house or ask friends for funding. The instant feeling was, ‘Oh wow, amazing.’ Daniel Ricciardo
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. Buddha
I need instant gratification. Barbra Streisand
There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback. Anant Agarwal
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. Edward Snowden
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Benjamin Disraeli
The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, ‘I will be sad if you don’t do X.’ You have to say, ‘We’re not going to do X, and here’s why, and believe me, you’ll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.’ Dick Costolo
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Christian Nestell Bovee
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Henry David Thoreau
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
E-books are great for instant gratification – you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later. Anne Lamott
I moisturise my feet every day with Scholl Dry Skin Instant Recovery Cream, a non-greasy cream which leaves my feet feeling soft and supple instantly. Laura Whitmore
Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized. Marilyn vos Savant
A soulmate is someone whom, when you meet, without thinking – without letting your neocortex play into the decision – you feel an instant familiarity, a sense of connection, a longing. Karen Salmansohn
I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be ‘beloved.’ I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted. Rebecca Wells
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away. Jim Flaherty
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. Daisaku Ikeda
There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Meister Eckhart
I think we live in the fast instant gratification generation. We want our love like our food, our films, our deliveries… fast and instant. Dating can be quite disposable now, with a swipe of a finger you’re gone. Asim Chaudhry
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
Instant gratification is not soon enough. Meryl Streep
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. Cesare Beccaria
If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. Bryn Terfel
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. Simon Sinek
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp
As a kid, I watched ‘Bugs Bunny’ cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade. Michael Paterniti
To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn’t exist before and couldn’t exist after. It’s almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you’re dead – not them. To me, photography’s always like that. Mario Testino
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. Steven Wright
As with instant replay, NFL Films’ use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough. Tony Verna
I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it’s instant death to creativity. Mads Mikkelsen
I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places. Jack Dorsey
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. Marc Andreessen
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. Mick Jagger
Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it’s not just any second, it’s a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it’s not. In an instant it’s over – you won’t have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment. Diego Simeone
No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now – that instant gratification. P. J. Tucker
At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans. Nostradamus
When I retired I was done and it was instant relief. Instant. Adam Goodes
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack. Chris Martin
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer
Smell is something that attracts me instantly. So if the guy smells nice, there is an instant attraction. Alia Bhatt