Quotes About Gratification

But that was then and this was now, when it seemed that people were different. They put up with less; they were more impatient than earlier generations. Why? Because now we were used to getting what we wanted – and getting it quickly, whether it was something ordered online, or happiness itself .

Sometimes, eating a thick slice of chocolate fudge cake with ice cream makes you a better person.

Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until its done

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

Since food is so easily available in the USA, adopting French habits such as no snacking, eating only at meals, eating only when seated can counter the tendency to instant gratification. Dining

In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.

que les procuraba, inmediatamente, sin esfuerzo, la adquisición de las cosas: un suplemento de existencia.

Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

To be proud of something is a really nice feeling.

You don't go to church for intellectual gratification - you go because it pleases your aesthetic sensibilities.

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

One of life's finest things is enjoying your food.

The first really good piece I ever bought for myself was right after 'Gunsmoke' started. I couldn't wait to get my first pay check so I could buy that pinky finger ring, with diamonds and emeralds.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you're actually giving away.

Blowing terrorists to smithereens is gratifying.

Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.

Fantasies act to "nourish" the ego in the form of a partial gratification and thus can contribute to psychological equilibrium when security or satisfaction from the real environment is lacking.

In a defended state, individuals have learned partially to satisfy their own needs, to fulfill their own goals in fantasy. In imagining that they don't need anyone, that they are capable of taking care of themselves through self-parenting behaviors, they must react negatively to events and to people who offer real gratification. They become dishonest when they attempt to deceive themselves and others that they still want real satisfaction, real friendship or relationships.