#gratification

Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first? ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#martyrdom #life

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. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#definitely #enjoy #feel #fun #go

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work. ↗

— Gregor Mendel

#am #before #convinced #gratification #great

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#doing good #good #gratification #makes #ourselves

Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure, uncertain in its results, is given up, but only in order to gain in the new way an assured pleasure coming later. But the end psychic impression made by this substitution has been so powerful that it is mirrored in a special religious myth. The doctrine of reward in a future life for the—voluntary or enforced—renunciation of earthly lusts is nothing but a mythical projection of this revolution in the mind. In logical pursuit of this prototype, religions have been able to effect the absolute renunciation of pleasure in this life by means of the promise of compensation in a future life; they have not, however, achieved a conquest of the pleasure-principle this way. It is science which comes nearest to succeeding in this conquest; science, however, also offers intellectual pleasure during its work and promises practical gain at the end. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#delayed-gratification #religion #renunciation #science #religion

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

#being #children #classical #excitement #glamour

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

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

— Jeff Bridges

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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

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Instant gratification takes too long. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#instant #instant gratification #long #takes #too