| But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification? |
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| Children who can delay their desire for instant gratification have been shown to do better in all walks of career and financial future. |
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| Nuanced arguments obviously are not doing the trick anymore in our media-saturated instant gratification culture. |
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| It was no doubt a huge boost for the children who wrote them, an instant gratification that may well urge them on to more compositional efforts. |
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| And just to satisfy your need for instant gratification, turn to page 40 to find six quick meals you can fix in no time. |
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| This time last year I was living a life centred on myself, on things that would give me instant gratification and were sensually pleasurable. |
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| In a society where instant gratification is the norm, patience is a value our children sorely need to learn. |
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| Patience challenged people will tire quickly of the tedious task of unraveling strands and may push for the instant gratification of a chop. |
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| It's that sense of immediacy and instant gratification that is part of the allure. |
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| But at that time, see, it's all about instant gratification, immediate gratification. |
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| The point we have to look at first is that we live in an age of instant gratification. |
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| We are not in a time of instant gratification and instant war starting and stopping. |
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| Modern culture, with its emphasis on material gain, instant gratification, and continual diversion threaten the life of the spirit. |
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| Some people are ardent in pursuit of instant gratification of their desires. |
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| Integral part of this is the instant gratification of socially constructed needs that counteracts the development of self-discipline in the home. |
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| Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results. |
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| These inscriptions and patterns included conical imprints whose duplicative quality insinuated the instant gratification and subsequent disposal that affects most cities. |
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| In the age of instant gratification, where everything can be available at the flick of a switch or the press of a button, it's an effort to get to a voting station. |
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| The instant gratification culture influences, if not mesmerizes, virtually everyone. |
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| In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these cause. |
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| They tend to prefer populist initiatives, using instant gratification, whereas your kind of project provides the payoff in the medium term. |
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| It provides instant gratification and immediate results. |
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| The context takes advantage of you to create moments of instant gratification rather than a bilateral relationship between creation and reception. |
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| This is all the more powerful with a medium like the Internet, since once the image is presented, the viewer can go back to it or to similar images with the reward of instant feedback, or instant gratification. |
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| How can the fickle, rootless and irresponsible Bruno, a thief and a liar drifting in a world of unreality and fecklessness and totally addicted to all forms of instant gratification, become the father of this child? |
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| I have come to think that young people are not as flexible as they used to be, perhaps because they are more spoiled and used to instant gratification. |
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| People may not get instant gratification from a family member, friend or neighbour, but there is someone or some family member who appreciates more than words can articulate their thanks and appreciation. |
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| You've got that need for instant gratification, that need to get you back. |
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