“The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Medical tests have shown that giving stimulates a part of the brain that gives us the same gratification as when we eat… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to… — Larry Towell Copy Share Image
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
“In our quest for entertainment and instant gratification, we have become detached from the real world and its problems, contributing to the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Recognise instant self-gratification for what it is. Resist the temptation to grab for material objects like the perfect house, the coolest clothes… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Democracy encourages a taste for physical gratification; this taste, if it becomes excessive, soon disposes men to believe that all is matter… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
“When we allow ourselves to show some patience and take time to listen to the others, we may learn a lot about… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification. — Xaviera Hollander Copy Share Image
I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant… — Chris Daughtry Copy Share Image
The things that give instant gratification like social media, or expensive cars, or splurging on gadgets yet no life, or retail therapy,… — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is… — Anthony Famiglietti Copy Share Image
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
“The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“THEY pass’d the Time of their Journey in as much Happiness as the most luxurious Gratification of wild Desires could make them;… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the payoff or instant gratification derived from bad habits often far outweighs what’s going on in your rational… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
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