Sentence examples for immediate drives from inspiring English sources

As did Kierkegaard, then, Nietzsche uncovers an aspect of my being that can be understood neither in terms of immediate drives and inclinations nor in terms of a universal law of behavior, an aspect that is measured not in terms of an objective inventory of what I am but in terms of my way of being it.

Often referred to as the "marshmallow tests," they were later adapted to test a variety of animals, ranging from chimpanzees to corvids, to identify whether these animals can overcome their immediate drives for longer than a few seconds in favor of maximizing their future profits, and to determine whether they can assess the costs and benefits of a particular action before executing it.

Observations in an operant learning context [19] suggest that, compared to wolves, dogs have a better control of the suppression of immediate drives in favour of delayed rewards and show higher attentiveness to humans already at the age of 9 weeks.

The problem is invariably the after-school sports practices, coming so close to dismissal and requiring an immediate drive to the field or rink, and usually a frantic change of costume as well.

The urge for immediate gratification drove me out of the house and to the nearest Jo-Ann fabric store.

Alderson, who was a platoon commander and executive officer in the Marine Corps in 1970-71, may eventually put his immediate competitive drive behind him and pursue the trades that Mets fans foresee with mixed feelings.

"As the Ad economy is shifting to data and mobile, the need for immediate data driven decisions and planning needs to be mobile first," says Pollfish co-founder and CEO John Papadakis.

It is perhaps this craving for immediate experience that drives the highly emotional forms of religion growing so fast in the contemporary world, though Jung would have discerned a sentimentality in them that again simplifies humankind's moral ambiguities and spiritual paradoxes.

"It drives immediate new awareness of the selected artist and album and drives directly into both a viral sharing dynamic and also album sales and pre-orders via iTunes," he notes.

To this day, looking at the bigger payoff -- rather than the immediate work -- drives me to work harder.

This approach facilitates a short boost of protein activity that drives immediate targeted gene disruption (within 12 hr) in up to near one-fourth of the target alleles in a population of cells without the risks of permanently inserting copies of ZFN- or TALEN-encoding genes into the genome.