Gratification Quotes
Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.
Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.
Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.
People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to keep it.
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Be nice to your hairstylist. It's an instant gratification! It doesn't matter how badly their day has gone, in that moment they feel amazing. And the hairdresser has made them feel that way.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.
I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification.
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
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.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.
Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.