When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson 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
Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world… — Gregor Mendel Copy Share Image
We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain… — Adam Jacobs Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five… — Questlove Copy Share Image
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson 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
“Our culture tells us to want sex, pleasure, and instant gratification. Every hit song raves about it. Consumerism tells us that we… — Michael J Heil 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
This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my… — Anonymous 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
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
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own,… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and… — Arthur Helps 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
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at… — George Combe Copy Share Image
“There’s gratification in abstaining from the easy choice. Instant gratification can bring more suffering than pleasure. If I do the hard thing,… — Cecily Wang Copy Share Image
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to… — Zoe Kazan 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
“Revenge isn't a benefit, Lo. It’s self-gratification, an emotional response with very little logic and even less reward.” — Anonymous 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
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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