Being Quote by Tiffany Haddish

“Immediate gratification is a dream killer.”

— Bryant McGill

Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

— Joan Didion

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that…

— Steven Pressfield

Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.

— Brendan Dooling

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social…

— Julian Bond

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting…

— Aristotle

“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? It’s because…

— Darren Hardy

Academia does not provide many opportunities for immediate gratification. You work for two years on a project, it takes two more years to get…

— Richard Thaler

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for…

— Anonymous

I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the public eye,…

— Amandla Stenberg

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive…

— Pope John Paul II

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness…

— Samuel Johnson