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#gratification

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Instant gratification takes too long.


Carrie Fisher


#instant #instant gratification #long #takes #too

On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.


Judith Krantz


#buy #dependable #gratification #hand #heart

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.


Lewis Thomas


#come #deeper #distance #even #exhilaration

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.


Ellen Willis


#contained #continually #could #demand #easily

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


#black #craving #good #gratification #i

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.


Joseph Lancaster


#becomes #brought #conviction #directed #easily

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

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.


George Richards Minot


#greater #independence #land #men #possession

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


#comforts #culture #entertainment #forms #given

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.


Steven Pressfield


#gratification #resistance #art






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