Tony Robbins Quotes

In this era of instant communications, the people want instant results.

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

Our whole society is instantaneous.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

People are not patient anymore.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

Especially in the digital age, people want everything now, now, now.

What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?

Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.

Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

I think today that's a very big problem because of the world we live in and the social media and everything... everybody is obsessed with their own identity, but seen through other people.

People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.