Quotes About Gratification

It took me 30 years, but I finally bought myself the Patek Philippe watch I'd always wanted. It's ridiculous how much I love it.

I was really happy with how 'Rogue One' came out.

When you order room service as much as I do, and Postmates, you don't really need to have a lot of food.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

You cannot appreciate the sense of satisfaction that I get from my job.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

I've been very, very successful. It's very satisfying to me.

When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

True luxury is either inestimable or completely free.

My philosophy, if I had one, would be pretty simple. The taste of a pizza with a Coke, the sight of a well-made body, the feel of a mouth where it does the most good, the hearing of a piece of music I like, the smell of oil and leather and armpits.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

Col bastone in mano penso non mi farei più mettere sotto da nessuno. Terrei testa. Questo bastone davvero mi mette allegria. Asseconda la mia vocazione al dispotismo. Quanto mi piace, dire agli altri cosa devono fare. Ci voleva di ammalarsi, per scoprire quanto dare disposizioni sia in fondo più gratificante di una faticosa autosufficienza. Era per moralismo, prima, che m'imponevo di fare tutto da sola. Adesso, malata, posso godermi in segreto un privilegio eticamente sospetto.

We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.

When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

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.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

person who grows up getting too frequent rewards will not have persistence, because they'll quit when the rewards disappear.

When people get what they want, they haven't a clue what to do with it.

I am not the sort of person who will wake up and go and buy myself a Ferrari.