Quote by Norah Vincent Download Open image ““Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”” — Norah Vincent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It seems that the one characteristic most closely correlated with success in life, which has persisted over the decades, is the ability to delay… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Instant gratification has replaced true happiness. The problem with this is that instant gratification is very short lived, and the next thing you know… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
“It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most human beings live only for the gratification of it. ARISTOTLE” — Gerald G. May 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
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of desire that it remains unfulfilled. It will arise again and again, and the more you try to fulfill… — Osho Copy Share Image
“There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential. — Mike Dooley Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when” — John Green Copy Share Image
Smokers, like so many of us, are mavericks when they're healthy but parasites when they're not. They trash their bodies and then expect the… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only the Christian… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The feminist establishment has made choice a woman's issue. The Christian right has made life a religious issue. Both have made loyalty crucial. If… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Private academic institutions admit the children of alumni because substantial parts of their operating budgets come from the financial contributions of alumni. — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
My gender has roots in my brain, possibly biochemical ones, living very close to the roots of my self-image... Far, far closer than my… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag took advantage… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Americans love a morality tale, especially one that's been taken from real life. We like facile categories of good and bad, and we like… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
People who dislike Oprah's Book Club dislike it for the same reason that they dislike Barnes & Noble. The fact that the two do… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The candidates who get themselves elected are illusionists and prevaricators of the first order. We expect this of them. They're a reflection of us,… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
