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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
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
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. -- Mark Strand
Theatre is immediate gratification -- Chita Rivera
Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination. -- Dan Ariely
Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited. -- Ralph Marston
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. -- Clayton Christensen
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later. -- Ann Landers
Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification. -- Joan Didion
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows. -- Carol Burnett
We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky. -- Faye Kellerman
I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have. -- Demi Moore
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person. -- Aristotle
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. -- Samuel Johnson
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
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Theatre is immediate gratification. -- Chita Rivera
Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for. -- Paul Shaffer
I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification. -- John Maus
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For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects. -- Steven Holl
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences. -- Dalai Lama
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. -- Eric Liu
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose intellectual development is slowed down. No matter how well he is endowed intellectually, if direct action and immediate gratification are the guiding principles of his behavior, there will be less incentive to develop the higher mental processes, to reason, to employ the imagination creatively. . . . -- Selma Fraiberg
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
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted. -- Bat for Lashes
Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually. -- Brendan Dooling

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