Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification. — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem. — Janet Guthrie Copy Share Image
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place. — Steffan Rhodri 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
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
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
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
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
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
The dream of romantic love is taken more seriously in North America than it is anywhere else in the world, which is… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“As I detailed in my TED Talk, I think we all have two main characters in our heads: a rational decision-maker (the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Most people give up on their dreams, goals, plans, give up in what they are doing, because they want instant gratification. Most… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
“Oh, go on' you prod encouragingly. 'Well, just a small one then,' they say and dartingly take a small one, and then… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“And so, beginning with the small early frustrations and deprivations, the child is helped to govern himself. his ego develops by learning… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. — Mike Dooley 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
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I got into this business because you can get gratification from it the moment you set foot onstage. — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
