Gratification Quotes - Page 9

• This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.

  Hortense Odlum

  Expression, Desire, Devastation

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• Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.

  Mike Murdock

  Self, Immaturity, Inability

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• The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the saying goes, falling for the swindle; if it guarantees them even the most fleeting gratification they desire a deception which is nonetheless transparent to them. They force their eyes shut and voice approval, in a kind of self-loathing, for what is meted out to them, knowing fully the purpose for which it is manufactured. Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.

  Theodor Adorno

  Fall, Eye, Self

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.103, Routledge

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• 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.

  Bob Newhart

  People, Laughing, Sound

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Men, Extravagance, Safe

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hands, Population, Pursuit

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.167, John Wiley & Sons

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• Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Boxing, Theater, Instant Gratification

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Mean, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.373

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• The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

  Mario Cuomo

  Self, Circles, Needs

  "Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History". Book by William Safire, 1992.

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• Let's be clear about what people never say about Playboy on television. It was nothing more than an instrument for onanism. That's what it was. And the Internet co-opted that industry of self- gratification. There is no necessity for lonely men or teenagers to use Playboy. It turns out no one bought that magazine for the articles ever; it was used for only one thing.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Lonely, Teenager, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Teamwork, Football, Real

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, May, Rewards

  Samuel Johnson (1801). “Works: ¬The Rambler”, p.223

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• The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "The Beautiful in Music: A Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics". Book by Eduard Hanslick, 1854.

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• The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Knowing, Tools

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• One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Thinking

  "Corporate Journalism". Interview with Bernie Dwyer, chomsky.info. October 28, 2003.

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• Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

  Joe Hill

  Giving Up, Attitude, Talking

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• Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

  Squidward Tentacles

  Fate, Long, Giving

  "Fictional character: Squidward Tentacles". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm/Squid on Strike", 2001), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes easier to tolerate the frustrations of the real world and to accede to the demands of reality if one can restore himself at intervals in a world where the deepest wishes can achieve imaginary gratification.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Real, Frustration

  "The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood". Book by Selma Fraiberg, 1959.

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Passion, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Christian, Pride, Emotional

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Self

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• A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Thinking, Errors, Ideas

  Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.15

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for your own life. Don't pass your days in a stupor, content to swallow whatever watery ideas modern society may bottle feed you through the media, satisfied to slumber through life in an instant gratification sugar coma. The most extraordinary gift you've been given is your own humanity, which is about consciousness. So honor that consciousness.

  Eustace Conway

  Men, Media, Ideas

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