We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings… — A. S. Byatt 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
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
I think everything about it. Just the experience, but mainly performing live for people. I think if it wasn't for playing in… — Chris Hesse Copy Share Image
Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by… — Anonymous 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
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. — Bobby Sherman 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
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
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
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed… — Jean-Baptiste Say 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
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
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
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base… — James T. Rapier Copy Share Image
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they… — Jim Barksdale Copy Share Image
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
