Gratification Quotes - Page 15

• There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Comfort, Baha, Hardship

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• ...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.

  Caitlin Moran

  Crush, Children, Lying

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• There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

  Michel de Montaigne

  Pride, Giving, Inward

  Michel de Montaigne, John Michael Cohen (1959). “Essays”, Penguin Classics

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• I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Hook, Want

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• I'm an American and I want instant gratification.

  Jude Deveraux

  Want, Instant Gratification, Instant

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• I get more gratification out of getting some obese person who had a heart attack running around and enjoying life within a year. I get more gratification from that than putting a person in the Olympic Games. The Olympic athlete probably doesn't appreciate what you've done, but the other guy does. I think it's really rewarding.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Heart, Athlete

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• The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Joy, Soul

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.163

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• If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

  Bill Bonner

  Long, Mark, Delayed Gratification

  Bill Bonner (2012). “Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view.

  Henry Kett

  Nature, Men, Views

  "Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science".

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• Satan represents indulgence, instead of abstinence! Satan represents vital existence, instead of spiritual pipe dreams! Satan represents undefiled wisdom, instead of hypocritical self-deceit! Satan represents all of the so-called sins, as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Dream, Spiritual, Emotional

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• So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Learning, Cutting, Math

  James Joseph Sylvester (1877). “Address Delivered by J.J. Sylvester, F.R.S. (corresponding Member of the Institute of France), Professor of Mathematics, at Johns Hopkins University on Commemoration Day, February 22, 1877”

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Poison

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• 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.

  Piet Zwart

  Beautiful, Men, Self

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Shameless, Share

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 11, 1968.

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• Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

  Ralph Marston

  Choices, Immediate Gratification, Ifs

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• We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species

  Philip Wollen

  Life, Trust, Dream

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• Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

  Daniel Goleman

  Emotional, Self, Accomplishment

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.83, Bantam

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• 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

  Missing, Alive, Return

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• I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

  John Maus

  Struggle, Mean, Violence

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Passion, Approval Of Others, Insane

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• We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Action, Ethics

  Isabel Allende (1993). “The Infinite Plan: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

  Eoin Colfer

  Position Of Power, Wish, Opal

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.917, Penguin UK

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