I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gratification in seeing what one has never seen before, be it ever so little worth seeing;” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix. — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. — Ellis Peters 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
“wrong. Instant gratification does not usually bring long-term peace. Our peace comes because of foundational things in our spirit and not by… — Shannon A. Scott Copy Share Image
“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES IS THAT LIES DO GIVE IMMEDIATE SENSE GRATIFICATION AND THAT IS WHY IT IS EVER ACCEPTED BY THE… — DAVID OKAFOR Copy Share Image
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that -… — Ryan McGinley 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
The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo.… — Jane Grigson Copy Share Image
I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life… — David Foster Wallace 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
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“That her will and wishes had opposed my own just a little more. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Everything is a tool. Every tool has a purpose. Every purpose always ends with a result. The end result is always a… — Joey Lawsin Copy Share Image
I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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
You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but… — Hermann Hesse 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
“It’s just human psychological truth really. Anything acquired without effort and without cost investment of time and energy is generally unappreciated within… — Scott Abel Copy Share Image
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. — Julian Ovenden Copy Share Image
“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently” — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Unlike writing a book, which can take several years, baking is instant gratification. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
