Quotes About Gratification

love threatens an individual's defenses and source of internal gratification and leaves the person feeling vulnerable. Individuals generally react negatively or angrily to being chosen, to being seen as lovable, or to being preferred over others. Personal

The author sees resistance as the holding on to an imaginary connection to others, due to the dread of re-experiencing one's sense of aloneness and helplessness. Ultimately, resistance functions in order to protect the individual from experiencing anxiety states that arise from the threats to the neurotic resolution of the basic conflict—the conflict between dependency on inner fantasy for gratification versus a desire for real gratification in the interpersonal environment.

Buying something ultimately comes down to feeling good about the purchase.

When a movie or TV show is too heavily larded with these moments, you may be looking at the result of interference from producers and executives. They've trained themselves to see stories as connective tissues fusing together various categories of gratification. This is why so many would-be blockbusters play more like hodge-podges of disparate stimuli than satisfyingly integrated narratives.

The end of starvation is quite delicious.

satisfaction.

beautifully gratified, said Mrs. Bhaer, taking Teddy's

Is that my boy? As sure as this is my girl! and Laurie tucked her hand under his arm with the air of a man whose every wish was gratified.

Then Monsieur is satisfied? asked Planchet. My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men! And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?

The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew... And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

A cock's not for pleasing yourself, boy, it's for pleasing others. Maybe that's where you're going wrong.

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

I have lived a carnal life.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get it published, and then you start hoping someone might read it.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm. But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

After a pay per view, I know there is TV the next day. But after Raw, I like to eat bad. I can have some pizza, French fries, a burger, live it up, a glass of wine - red, of course.

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

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.