Gratification Quotes - page 2

Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially of a sexual need. (Wilhelm Reich)
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share. View quote
Quentin Crisp
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. View quote
Judith Krantz
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. View quote
Andrew Vachss
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. View quote
Eddie Rickenbacker
As far as show business, it's the gratification of doing something that pleases the fans. View quote
Bobby Sherman
Theatre is immediate gratification. View quote
Chita Rivera
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there is not patience for the long. Slow rebuilding process: implementing after school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas. View quote
Dan Hill
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. View quote
George Minot
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time. View quote
Josh Radnor
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. (Judith Wright)
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. View quote
Julian Bond
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something. View quote
Julian Ovenden
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you. View quote
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things. View quote
Richard Schiff
We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us. View quote
Rod Parsley
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way. View quote
Raymond Arroyo
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty. View quote
William Ellery Channing
We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates. View quote
Joan Collins
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. View quote
David Ricardo
They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances. (Margaret Mead)
If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by "Bwussels”, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure. View quote
Boris Johnson
Gold, silver, jewels: dust, heaps of manure. Gratification, sensual pleasures, satisfaction of the appetites: like a beast, like a mule, like a cock, like a pig, like a bull. Honours, distinctions, titles: things of air, puffs of pride, lies, nothingness. View quote
Josemaría Escrivá
My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive-Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine-but no living beings to experience them. View quote
E. M. Forster
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification. View quote
Bruce Dickinson