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  • Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

    Passion   Racing   Levels  
  • The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

    Ideas   Joy   Anxiety  
    Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company
  • We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

    School   Media   Tunes  
  • To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

    Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House
  • With great effort comes great gratification.

    Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.241, Storey Publishing
  • 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.

    Self   Denial   Greedy  
    Source: newrepublic.com
  • Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

    Evil   Enemy   Social  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.136, University of Georgia Press
  • Providence has fixed the limits of human enjoyment by immovable boundaries, and has set different gratifications at such a distance from each other, that no art or power can bring them together. This great law it is the business of every rational being to understand, that life may not pass away in an attempt to make contradictions consistent, to combine opposite qualities, and to unite things which the nature of their being must always keep asunder.

    Art   Distance   Law  
    Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.148
  • I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

  • When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gratification.

  • We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain gratification from knowing that you did your best work and knowing that you are at the level that you are at.

    Source: www.blackfilm.com
  • I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  • She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

    Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library
  • The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

    Dream   Men   Long  
    Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”
  • You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

    Frankenstein Letter 4 (1818)
  • Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.

    Beautiful   Men   Self  
  • Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

  • We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

    Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.
  • Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

  • 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.

    Chance   Pleasure   Deny  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics
  • Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

    Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.89, Sasquatch Books
  • Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

  • For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . .

    Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
  • As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

    Believe   People   Battle  
    "Eric Balfour Exclusive Interview DO NOT DISTURB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.
  • If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

    Roots   Over You   Causes  
    Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press
  • There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

    People   Laughing   Sound  
    "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.
  • I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

    Writing   Artist   Oxygen  
    "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.
  • 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 availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

  • The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

  • A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

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