A Quote by Pliny the Elder

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny the Elder

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Being Deferred Desire Gratification Know Thing

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Pliny the Elder
Roman - Author
23 - 79

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

A. S. Byatt

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Heather Donahue

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.

Charlie Munger

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Andrew Vachss

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

Charles Frazier

I think that fashion, in general, is a world of super-heightened glamour, and when you talk about super-heightened glamour, the first thing that comes to mind is a drag queen.

Chris March

The thing is, even if you're playing sort of a heightened character and playing inside sort of a heightened reality, you can still apply your own truths to those characters.

Johnny Depp

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Ian Bogost

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda

Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Vernon Howard

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.

Paula Giddings

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.