Gratification Quotes
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I need instant gratification.
Barbra Streisand -
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
George Bernard Shaw
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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
Mike Tyson -
Instant gratification takes too long.
Carrie Fisher -
Deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.
William Henry Vanderbilt -
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We live in a time where there's a required instant gratification from audiences. That's a fun challenge in terms of putting together this teaser, picking and choosing how much you're actually giving away.
Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Beatrice Webb -
The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.
Ann Druyan -
I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Thomas Hardy -
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.
William Gilmore Simms -
One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.
Hilary Mantel
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle -
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Raymond Arroyo -
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.
Jeff Bezos -
It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
Philip James Bailey -
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
Sigmund Freud -
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
Andrew Vachss
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Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.
Immanuel Kant -
He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa -
While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.
Bhikkhu Bodhi