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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Theatre is immediate gratification.
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
I like to do one film at a time. But sometimes, when projects get delayed for reasons beyond my control, I juggle more than one.
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
Theatre is immediate gratification
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive
There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.
Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.
The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.
The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.
We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.
Music is instant gratification in its purest form.
I don't believe losing my unbeaten record has delayed me in my ambitions. I believe it was just a hard lesson learned and that's it.
The gratification of desire is not happiness.
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.
Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.
Instant gratification takes too long.
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
I'm an American and I want instant gratification.
With acting, the response is usually delayed and takes time, unlike with singing, from where I instantly get fans' response.
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.
One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.
A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
Ah, no, deployment was delayed after you left. Technical difficulties.” “Oh?” “Yes, it was technically difficult to leave a heartbroken Alpha.
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.
A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?
[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
If funding for DHS is delayed, it will have a grave effect on Washington's economy as commerce grinds to a halt along the Canadian border.
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
I need instant gratification.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
