Top 1200 Immediate Gratification Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

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.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

My support group - my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers-in-law, my immediate nieces and nephews, my immediate family like Aunt Donna - I know I can trust them. Most of the other people...they never called me before, they never said "I love you" before, they never wanted to take a picture with me at family reunions. It's like, don't do it now...You win the lottery and all of a sudden everybody's your best friend.

Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

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.

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary gratification.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

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.

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

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.

We think of cannabis as a drug, in accordance with international opinions. This means that even consuming small amounts can lead to very severe dependence. With alcohol or cigarettes however, sensibly limited consumption does not bear the risk of immediate addictiveness as this is the case with cannabis according to our opinion. With alcohol there surely is an element of a tradition. However, enjoyed in moderation, as supplement to a meal for example, alcohol is not something that causes immediate dependence. Still, there is a great need for prevention and information in this matter.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

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

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.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification.

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.

Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

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.

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.

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.

What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

People need immediate places to refresh, reinvent themselves. Our surroundings built and natural alike, have an immediate and a continuing effect on the way we feel and act, and on our health and intelligence. These places have an impact on our sense of self, our sense of safety, the kind of work we get done, the ways we interact with other people, even our ability to function as citizens in a democracy. In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.

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.

The Senate is not the sort of place where instant gratification, I should say, is very likely.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage.

Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

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.

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

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.

Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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.

In Kali yuga, whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness, Material sense gratification is standard of civilization.

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.