Sentences with phrase «instant gratification culture»

Doing so can be difficult when the media, working in concert with an instant gratification culture of consumerism, often distracts people from tried and true principles.

Many experts have linked impatience to the current instant gratification culture we live in.

The answer to an instant gratification culture isn't to simply discard technology but to subvert the very values of a society that calls you to produce and consume more, more, more and do it now, now, now.

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Our instant - gratification culture means you need to respond quickly, provide value and let customers decide how and when to start the conversation.

Lee - Chin says he was always «on the side of right,» and that it was a culture of instant gratification that sank him.

To suggest otherwise is to devalue human struggle and extol a culture of immediacy and instant gratification.

We've grown accustomed to an instant - gratification culture where we hold the reigns and can switch from one thing to the next, the second something gets too boring or too difficult.

Fast - Food Spirituality: Mix spirituality with a culture that celebrates speed, multitasking, and instant gratification and the result is likely to be fast - food spirituality.

The author considers the dangers of TV's tendencies toward over simplification, instant gratification, and sensationalism, and concludes that when religious buys into the TV culture, it runs the risk of distorting not only life, but also religious faith.

No New Age proponent of the culture of death and instant gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family life.

A long - term approach is rare in today's Premier League culture, where instant gratification reigns supreme, and few managers have taken a similar gamble.

Our culture reflects our values: Me - first, instant gratification, addictions galore!

Especially in our instant - gratification culture, it's hard to feel like a successful scientist or engineer in grad school when your friends from college have already gotten great jobs, gotten married, bought houses, and started families — all while you're still living with roommates and eating Ramen noodles.

The western culture encourages instant gratification - always pushing to go faster and faster.

After all, we live in a culture of accumulation and instant gratification.

Our instant - gratification culture bombards us with images of «how we should look» and has us comparing ourselves to everyone else.

Not because there's lack of singles in that age group that are interested in dating, but because there's a distinct lack of places you can go to meet them, the bars, clubs, cinemas, all has been invaded by new culture that is more focused on speed dating and instant gratification then on what a mature person is looking for, a stable relationship.

And in our inter-connected, up - to - the - moment, instant - gratification seeking culture, what we «do not know» seems to grow by the hour.

To some extent, «Shame» follows in the tradition of «The Lost Weekend» and «The Man with the Golden Arm,» as well as «Last Tango in Paris,» but McQueen's work seems broader, more resonant in our instant - gratification, must - have - it - now culture.

This grounding in magic rather than pseudo-science mirrors the larger difference between the two films, that He Ain't Heavy is steeped in local tradition and culture (however made - up for the purpose of the film the plot is, the Mid-Autumn Festival is surely a thing) while Future values the present above all else, about instant gratification.

In this culture of instant gratification, it is often hard to convince someone to wait until they are ready before doing something as important as publishing a book.

Ours is a culture that has grown to expect instant gratification and an all - access pass; we are constantly «plugged in» and busy narrating our lives by posting feedback and opinions online.

Though action painting could be considered a throwback, this approach seems to parallel our culture's increasing need for instant gratification, and the resulting frustration when this need is not satisfied, an appropriately contemporary update to a primal, reactive state.

In the end, there won't be a silver bullet solution to developing more sustainable packaging practices, as modern packaging itself is based on a culture of disposability, waste and a mentality of instant gratification, with little thought to the life cycle of all that stuff.