#gratification

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 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

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 was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Instant gratification is not soon enough. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#gratification #instant #instant gratification #soon

I need instant gratification. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #instant #instant gratification #need

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

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need

Instant gratification takes too long. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#instant #instant gratification #long #takes #too

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