Caitlin Kittredge Quotes

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

I believe in intuition and approaching things as instant gratification. Just do the things you want to do, make the kind of pictures you want to make.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

I need instant gratification.

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Humans have a tendency towards short-term thinking.

As a child, you only think of the now.

I don't think too far ahead.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

The present eye praises the present object.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.