Quotes of: Instant-gratification Keyword

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

Tom Baker

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Thomas Perry

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Ellis Peters

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

Brian O'Driscoll

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Convince Them in 90 Seconds or Less: Make Instant Connections That Pay Off in Business and in Life

Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about fo...

The Truth About Forever

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

There are no instant solutions.

James Callaghan

After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.

Don Quixote

Next time you're off to get a new painting, bring a mirror and you'll see right away if it'll bring you gratification or not.

Siren Waroe

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

Eddie Rickenbacker

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

Jeff Bridges

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

Julian Bond

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

Brian Tracy

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes ...

Taylor Hackford

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

George Combe

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

Dane Cook

Second by second, the Queng Ho counted from the instant that a human had first set foot on Old Earth's moon. But if you looked at it still more closely ... the starting instant was actually about fifteen million seconds later, the 0-second of one of ...

A Deepness in the Sky

Te has dado cuenta que en los mejores momentos de tu vida no necesariamente hubo una cámara captando ese instante, hubiera sido genial pero más allá de eso, lo más importante fue lo que sentiste en el conjunto de esos instantes.

El amor es como un pan con mantequilla