Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before. — Jesse Metcalfe 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
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
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
I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success,… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop… — Bat for Lashes 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 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
“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from… — Mitch Kapor 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 gratification of helping others is a very American tradition and a Judeo-Christian tradition. Now it is great to see young people… — Evelyn Lauder Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. — Samuel Johnson 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
Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.… — Michael E. DeBakey 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
I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
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
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
