Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
When things start becoming second nature, I get a little paranoid because I feel like maybe my craft isn't evolving. I get… — Eugene Souleiman 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
I'm not saying that all American men are this way, but nine out of ten are breast-fixated, wham-bam-thank-you-rna'am cretins who just don't… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Where older religions promised heaven, the church of yoga promises quicker, more practical, earthly gratification, in the form of better heart rates… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings… — Alfred Kazin 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
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
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. — Martin Seligman 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
I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the… — Joseph Lancaster 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
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe 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
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
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson 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
I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a… — Arthur Lydiard Copy Share Image
In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize… — Bill Bryson 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 life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
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