#gratification

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

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

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

#expenditure #found #gratification #lavish #mere

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

— James Dean

#doing #gratification #results

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 gratification of desire is not happiness. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#gratification #happiness

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

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