A Quote by Mike Dooley

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

Mike Dooley

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Blinds Gratification Instant Instant Gratification Long Long-Term Obsession Our Potential Term Us

Quote Author

Mike Dooley
American - Author
Born: February 7, 1961

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

Darren Hardy

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

Gord Downie

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Dan Ariely

Instant gratification takes too long.

Carrie Fisher

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Brian Tracy

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Boyd K. Packer

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Donald Barthelme

Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

Squidward Tentacles

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Rod Parsley

We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

Rod Parsley

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

David Jeremiah

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

Bat for Lashes

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

Dalai Lama

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.

Tim Cook

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.