{"quotes":[{"text":"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["corrupt","corrupt-society","corruption","instant-gratification","society"],"id":864,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["hannah-lillith-assadi","instant-gratification","past","popularity","rich","sonora","wealthy"],"id":19659,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["instant-gratification","magnificence","magnificent","patience","patient","restraint","yields"],"id":32508,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.","author":"Steven Pressfield","tags":["dream","drive","instant-gratification","purpose","resistance"],"id":127454,"author_id":"Steven+Pressfield"},{"text":"It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.","author":"Davis Bunn","tags":["encouragement","inpatients","instant-gratification","leadership","vision"],"id":131395,"author_id":"Davis+Bunn"},{"text":"Our need for instant gratification is the reason we’re drawn to liars and hot air blowers.","author":"Izey Victoria Odiase","tags":["friends","friendship","human-psychology","instant-gratification","liars","love","motivational","patience","psychology","relationship","relationships","trust","trust"],"id":207641,"author_id":"Izey+Victoria+Odiase"},{"text":"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["gratification","hard-work","instant-gratification"],"id":240137,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.","author":"Boniface Sagini","tags":["impatience","instant-gratification","life","life","thrills-and-chills"],"id":361926,"author_id":"Boniface+Sagini"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}