Quotes About Gratification

we are all guilty of oversimplification at one point or another. It's an enticing idea. It fulfills our need for instant gratification. We find one thing and scream, "Eureka!" We found IT—the one thing that explains it all. The only trouble is that it never works. We are more likely to squeeze gold from our coffee grinder than we are to meet with success when adopting an idea that has been simplified beyond recognition.

There was an air of indifference about them [the male guests], a calm produced by the gratification of every passion… that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one's vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It was the first time I had had the opportunity of drinking champagne by the pint and it was a rewarding experience. I

Man, that hits the spot.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?

It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined enjoying of themselves?

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In short, I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.

The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.

You have to live every day fully, rather than postponing your gratification or purpose in the pursuit of something in the future that may or may not arrive for you.

When you live in the now, you allow yourself the freedom to enjoy a moment, rather than postponing that gratification or joy because you've got something more pressing to do.

When the drink was set before him, he felt better. He did not drink it immediately. Now that he had it, he did not need to.

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

Criminal Minds, The Dance of Love: "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

We live in a fast-food culture, in which we are led to believe that we need to have everything now; it is a culture that causes people to lose a sense of a future worth waiting for.

And yet the most valuable things are attained with the least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort

The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.