Top 1200 Immediate Gratification Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

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

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated.

There's a reason why VOD is so popular. You don't have to wait. There's instant gratification.

I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

I think what working in a short film online is that the response from the audience is immediate whether your short film or web-series works or not, it is immediate. You can see comments and you can also see how many people have viewed it.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Music is instant gratification in its purest form.

We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us.

The big difference I think between tv and stage is definitely the immediate buzz that you get. And that's not just as an actor, as an audience member you're getting the chance to have this kind of two-way process where the actors and the audience are experiencing the same thing. With tv you often have to wait months and months down the line to actually get the pay-off. Whereas with theatre it's a very immediate thing.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.

We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

I need instant gratification.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

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

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.

I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.

1. 0 is a number. 2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number. 3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number. 4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor. 5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.