It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.
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.
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
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.
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
We want people on the Internet to go to Imgur for their viral image fix. And what's so awesome about images vs. videos is that instant gratification.
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Meat is complicated. We have to be thoughtful about the ecosystem that we're living in and not to destroy it because of the instant gratification and the demand of others.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.
Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.
Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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.
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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.
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.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.
I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have.
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.
I definitely think we're living in a world or generation where we need constant gratification and adoration with Instagram and likes, and we base everything on attention.
Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
Medical tests have shown that giving stimulates a part of the brain that gives us the same gratification as when we eat food or have sex.
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