Quotes About Gratification

The word "enough" has no relevance for us.

As infants grow, they learn to manipulate their surroundings to their own gratification. A smile, grunt, kicking of the feet, rolling and shaking the head, crying, and screaming all say, "Pick me up, feed me, look at me. Doesn't anyone realize I have urgent needs? What could be more important than me?

Se habla de supermercados del sexo, que tienen un catálogo bastante completo de su oferta porno; pero les falta lo esencial. Y es que el objetivo mayoritario de la búsqueda sexual no es el placer, sino la gratificación narcisista, el homenaje que una pareja deseable rinde a la propia perfección erótica. [...] la meta que se persigue [...] es la embriaguez narcisista de la conquista.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay gratification.

Because of the fact that they failed in their socialisation process, serial killers treat their victims as mere objects that exist for the gratification of their own needs. They show no empathy for the victim.

The fact that Wilken was prepared to return to the decomposing bodies of some of his victims in order to commit necrophilia, indicates the extent to which he regarded them as objects for the gratification of his own needs and pleasures.

the person's ego needs to feel threatened by some event which causes a psychological imbalance. The psychological gain he receives from the murder is the restoration of the mental homeostasis, and of course most of them also experience sexual gratification.

He realises that he has a problem, he knows right from wrong, but the psychological gain and, of course, the sexual gratification are so great that he refuses to give it up and seek another, more humane, manner of addressing his pain.

But I don't love being asked to be an investor in a crowd-funded honeymoon. Here is why: it's not especially emotionally rewarding to know that I paid for three of five nights of a yurt rental in Big Sur.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

those fried potatoes I can smell are for me. I think they are.

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

Give little thought to food. For, the stomach is never satisfied and it can never be satisfied for a lifetime.

Health gives satisfaction, but not so much with pleasure in the sense of indulging oneself.

Satisfaction is the final destination of all wishes and desires.

The word 'enough' doesn't exist inside our minds when it comes on achieving and receiving for our pleasure.

When you're in the moment everything you want is right.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

To prayer, the alternative is penicillin; to family roots, the alternative is mobility; to reading, the alternative is television; to restraint, the alternative is immediate gratification; to sin, the alternative is psychotherapy; to political ideology, the alternative is popular appeal established through scientific polling.

The spanning of the bridge between desire—thinking of—and satisfaction—thinking from—is all-important. We must move mentally from thinking of the end to thinking from the end. This, reason could never do. By its nature it is restricted to the evidence of the senses; but imagination, having no such limitation, can. Desire exists to be gratified in the activity of imagination. Through imagination man escapes from the limitation of the senses and the bondage of reason.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.