We are soldiers who devote ourselves to arms not for the invasion of other countries, but for the defense of our own, not for the gratification of our private interests but for public security
There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what he was. It is a pleasure to mediocrity to have its superiors brought within range.
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.
You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and its important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.
I know that my mind is so A. D. D. , and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.