Instant Gratification

You’d hope that no

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You’d hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at you fast and it’s timely and then five minutes later we’re on to something else. It caters to our desire for instant gratification. And I think blogs … Read more

I think television is

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I think television is moving more into movies, particularly with serialization and almost cinematic proportions and expectations. A show like ‘Game of Thrones’ is a perfect example of that, or even a show like ‘The Wire,’ which isn’t all about instant gratification it’s about inviting someone into the long experience of television the way you’d … Read more

We live in a

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We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Boyd … Read more

It’s about learning your

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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification. You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person. Billie Jean King

I love the game.

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I love the game. I think it’s a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There’s no grey area, there’s instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We’re not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened. Bill Parcells

I wrote about Freud

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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. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, … Read more