Being on stage is, like, my favorite. The immediate gratification. That's my favorite. — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited. — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.” — Shannon L. Alder 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
“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
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
I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly,… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't… — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
“We’re a “rational” species—at least that’s what we tell ourselves. So why are we so irrationally enslaved by so many bad habits?… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf 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
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better… — Eric Liu 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
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
Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
People aren’t photographing for history any more. It’s for immediate gratification. If you’re photographing to share an image, you’re not photographing to… — Larry Towell 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
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee,… — Stephanie Perkins 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
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
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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
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
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
