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
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
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 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 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
I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie… — Trish Stratus Copy Share Image
I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many years spent listening to the tribulations of man have persuaded me that the satisfaction of all desires is completely counterproductive to… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
I suggest that those groups whose culture and values stress delayed gratification - education, hard work, success, and ambition - are those… — Richard Lamm 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did,and as was the case with all addicts,gratification was… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
Now most of 'Alice' isn't really a political social commentary, but I think a big message is here is that the culture… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
