The concern is that if people are presented with short-term gratifications like this, they will lose their zest for longer-term gratifications. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Longer-term gratifications - delaying gratifications - involve games that frustrate you for a while and maybe quite awhile, like EQ1 before you get good stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Personally, I'm more motivated by short-term gratifications like "I'll feel more focused" or "I'll sleep better" than long-term considerations like "I'll live longer" or "If I have surgery, I'll recover quicker." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Personally, I'm more motivated by short-term gratifications like "I'll feel more focused" or ❋ Unknown (2009)
The one or two marshmallows idea is tied to the issue of forgoing short-term gratifications that might undermine long-term gratification. ❋ Steve Watters (2009)
The dividends of the intrinsic course fall into the realm that the University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman calls "gratifications," the lasting form of happiness. ❋ Joe Robinson (2010)
What kind of gratifications can satisfy those needs over the long term? ❋ Joe Robinson (2010)
Though according to the terms of their warrant they were "to take care not to demand or receive any money, gratuity, reward, or any other consideration whatsoever for the sparing, exchanging or discharging any person or persons impressed or to be impressed," the taking of "gratifications" for these express purposes prevailed to a notorious extent. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"If Elersley has started a reform, it is time for the retail dealers in 'gratifications' to close up, for it is a sure sign we must all follow him." ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
On the other hand, I never perceived amongst the wealthier inhabitants of the United States that proud contempt of physical gratifications which is sometimes to be met with even in the most opulent and dissolute aristocracies. ❋ Unknown (1838)
These servants without a master received a salary of nine hundred francs a year; new years 'gifts and "gratifications" brought their emoluments to twelve hundred francs, and they made almost as much money by serving breakfasts to the clerks at the office. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
It frequently supplemented its inadequate stipends by "gratifications," which are thus described and criticised by M. Cattier: "The custom was introduced of paying to officials prizes proportioned to the amount of produce of the 'private domain' of the State, and of the taxes paid by the natives. ❋ John Holland Rose (1898)
The response stated that there was sufficient evidence to establish that not only did the ex-Minister receive from Wong Tim Kai the valuable things "concerned without consideration but also received the" gratifications "as an agent. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“We consume values in the lower gratifications of sense when we expend money for shows, for mere delicacies of the table, and for any thing which the only result is, the gratification of a physical appetite.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Habitually choosing the easy pleasures over the gratifications may have untoward consequences.3 ❋ Dr. Henry Cloud (2011)
Given all the benefits and the flow that the gratifications produce, it is very puzzling that we often choose pleasure and worse, displeasure over gratification. ❋ Dr. Henry Cloud (2011)
However, I hope you are all young enough to look for such gratifications in days to come. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If gratification ceases, [so does] the [devotion]. ❋ Kevin Shokrollahi (2007)
Guy A: "Man me and my girlfriend were [in the sack] last night."
Guy B: "Nice. Dude, have you ever tried [69ing] before?"
A: "Nah. I've never even gone down on my girlfriend before, actually."
B: "Dude, wth is wrong with you???"
A: "What? I don't get it, she already does it to me when we have sex, why should I go down on her?"
B: "Because women crave sexual gratification too, not just us dudes, bro."
A: "[For reals]?" ❋ Pseu-odonkayeo1179 (2020)
Not [jacking off] for a month. Then [finally] jacking off. [Delayed Gratification]. ❋ An Axe To Grind (2013)
In local news, city councilman McAccerty was allegedly found engaging in [self gratification] behind the bus shelter with a toy giraffe and a [roast chicken]. We go live on the scene of his [press conference] now. ❋ Dr_dude (2019)
1)[Children] always [seek] instant gratification.
2)That [ho]? She instant gratification. ❋ Mimir (2003)
If you haven't had sex with your [spouse] in [awhile] "It's not about [an organism]! It's about sexual gratification " ❋ Urban Doctor (2016)
"[I need] textual gratification, and [I need it] [now]!" ❋ Call Me Mr. Gee (2009)
Man #1: Yeah brother [I feel your pain], because that's the worst case of Unsexual gratification I've ever HEARD!
Man#2: [18 years] of pain for 5 minutes of ECSTASY with that [crazy woman]! ❋ 1maddd2mackxxx (2016)
Person A: So you get Masterual Gratification, doing [push ups] while fucking a [glory hole] [you made] in the floor?
Person B: Yes, and it feels good in both my arms and my penis. ❋ XFISHx (2007)
[Cuming] from [anal intercourse]...
She received [anal gratification] last night and never came so hard in her life... ❋ Biggest Creep Ever (2013)
