Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
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.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.
I'm an American and I want instant gratification.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.
So Positive Psychology takes seriously the bright hope that if you find yourself stuck in the parking lot of life, with few and only ephemeral pleasures, with minimal gratifications, and without meaning, there is a road out. This road takes you through the countryside of pleasure and gratification, up into the high country of strength and virtue, and finally to the peaks of lasting fulfillment: meaning and purpose
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.
The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
People don't understand that's what it takes. People look at this microwave success, but it takes years. You better be about it, and serious about what it is you're trying to put out into the world. The gratification is not going to be instant. This is the long game. You gotta be focused and you gotta have it in your heart, ultimate confidence, that it's dope. When it hits, it's going to be worth.
To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.
[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
