Quotes About Gratification

What does the frontal cortex do? Its list of expertise includes working memory, executive function (organizing knowledge strategically, and then initiating an action based on an executive decision), gratification postponement, long-term planning, regulation of emotions, and reining in impulsivity.35

Indeed, to be fucked pleasurably is a gift.

Just how much renunciation of desire does society demand of us versus the degree of gratification it provides?

many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." On the other hand, any true enjoyment serves to make us feel more deeply connected with everything else. Enjoying good food, music, sex, and books, enjoying pleasant physical surroundings and beautiful things, traveling to interesting places—all these enrich and enliven us. In the West, spirituality has been long

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

Primero, el destino final de todos los productos en venta es el de ser consumidos por compradores. Segundo, los compradores desearán comprar bienes de consumo si y sólo si ese consumo promete la gratificación de sus deseos. Tercero, el precio que el cliente potencial en busca de gratificación está dispuesto a pagar por los productos en oferta dependerá de la credibilidad de esa promesa y de la intensidad de esos deseos.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

They therefore have no opportunity to suffer the interval between desire and gratification which the less privileged endure, and which, for all its apparent unpleasantness, has the incalculable benefit of allowing people to know and fall deeply in love with paintings in Dresden, hats, dressing gowns, and someone who isn't free this evening.

si nous ne parvenons pas à nous dégager des besoins les plus futiles, nous en voudrons toujours plus que nécessaire

Publicul alege ce e mai "tare", ceea ce ofer? o pl?cere practic?, palpabil?, imediat?. ?i care nu-l cost? oboseal?. ?i care nu d? de lucru creierului.

It was an arrangement, coldly conceived for sexual gratification, without even words that first time, but limited by coldly precise and rational language from there on out. The terms were that they would use each other's bodies for that ornate form of masturbation called Making Love, but there was to be no question of emotional involvement, or prying into one another's soul. This, they decided coldly, would keep them from going crazy.

Then he drinks, eats, and fucks.

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

Life itself is the proper binge.

How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

If people adopt the values that make for personal success—hard work, careful spending of money, sustained effort, delayed gratification—and keep themselves psychologically healthy by rejecting rage and resentment as the controlling attitudes of their lives, they will do well.

Food is the best substitute for everything, because it does not put up any resistance, but surrenders instantly.

Man's happiness today consists of 'having fun'. Having fun lies In the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks. cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies — all are consumed, swallowed.

Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.

She is to take a break from the idea that pleasure must be paid for, in advance, by the performance of duty. We chisel away at this complex system of fairness and merit, where everything has to be perfectly equitable in order to neutralize selfishness.

The era of pleasure has arrived.