Immediate Gratification Quotes

A management decision is irresponsible if it risks disaster this year for the sake of a grandiose future.

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

He who hesitates is poor.

Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.

I really think that if you live for today, tomorrow takes care of itself.

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.

Most choices are driven by immediate results.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

Writing never had the immediate gratification I was looking for.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

While business advertises, charity is taught to beg. While business motivates with a dollar, charity is told to motivate with guilt. While business takes chances, charity is expected to be cautious. We measure the success of businesses over the long term, but we want our gratification in charity immediately. We are taught that a return on investment should be offered for making consumer goods, but not for making a better world.

The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

I'm very impatient.

The laboring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.