#gratification

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#applause #being #come #different #different reasons

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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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. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. ↗

— James Dean

#doing #gratification #results

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. ↗

— Learned Hand

#gratification #law #man #maximum #nervous

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. ↗

— David Ricardo

#contribute #could #destitute #exchangeable #exchangeable value

I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#career #could #crowds #even #friends

Instant gratification is not soon enough. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#gratification #instant #instant gratification #soon

I need instant gratification. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #instant #instant gratification #need

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