We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs,… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant… — Tim Cope Copy Share Image
The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
How many thousands ... earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession -- I… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“In this day and age, there is a limitless plethora of readily available distractions just waiting to take your mind off what… — James Frankton Copy Share Image
Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
“How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth… — William Henry Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
“wrong. Instant gratification does not usually bring long-term peace. Our peace comes because of foundational things in our spirit and not by… — Shannon A. Scott Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES IS THAT LIES DO GIVE IMMEDIATE SENSE GRATIFICATION AND THAT IS WHY IT IS EVER ACCEPTED BY THE… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
