The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“If you don't learn to be happy with your present, you will never be happy with your future which would be your… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson 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
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“We’re a “rational” species—at least that’s what we tell ourselves. So why are we so irrationally enslaved by so many bad habits?… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Our party has failed in going in to those places because we've said, well, we don't get instant gratification back. So therefore,… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Be nice to your hairstylist. It's an instant gratification! It doesn't matter how badly their day has gone, in that moment they… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“In love as as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Given the choice between instant gratification and the lasting satisfaction of earning the esteem of someone you respect and admire, all but… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“We’re an instant-gratification society, and if something doesn’t immediately decimate us like a wooden stake in a vampire’s cold, dead heart, we… — Liz Wolfe Copy Share Image
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Delaying gratification is one of the most rewarding human pleasures. In almost all cases, the anticipation of an enjoyable experience is as… — Karen Amanda Hooper Copy Share Image
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I think that public gratification is what my mind is looking for. That is not what it's all about. It's about how… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
