#gratification

The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#gratification #guns #important #instant #instant gratification

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#ennui #spoiled #want #wealth #family

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#drive #instant-gratification #purpose #resistance #art

Theatre is immediate gratification. ↗

— Chita Rivera

#immediate #theatre

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

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

— Learned Hand

#gratification #law #man #maximum #nervous

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

The gratification of desire is not happiness. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#gratification #happiness

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it? ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#back #business #buy #come #customers

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. ↗

— Ray Romano

#audience #comedy #format #gratification #i