Evan Bayh

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.

American Politician

Eric Balfour

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

American Actor

Madonna Ciccone

I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

American Musician

Joshua Sasse

People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most important thing: that you are as fully equipped for your job or your art as possible.

British Actor

Jonathan Maberry

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

American Author

Gregor Mendel

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Austrian Scientist

Dwayne Johnson

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

Greg Ginn

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.

Musician

Gord Downie

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

Canadian Musician

Rachael Taylor

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

Australian Actress

'Gratification' implies a reward after success or effort towards a goal.

Achievement Reward

'Gratification' often follows a positive event or a desired outcome.

Positive Outcome

'Gratification' suggests pleasure earned, not given freely or without effort.

Earned Pleasure

'Gratification' can imply a focus on one's own pleasure sometimes exclusive of others.

Self-Focused

'Instant gratification' refers to immediate pleasure without delay or patience.

Immediate Satisfaction

'Gratification' can sometimes be negative if it involves excess or neglect of others.

Not Always Positive

'Gratification' also refers to the source of happiness, not just the feeling.

Source of Joy

'Gratification' isn't limited to material things; it can come from emotions or actions.

Beyond Material

'Gratification' in personal context often mixes pride with satisfaction.

Personal Achievement

 the perfect vaccine but it's moving along sothe myths let's do work where every month we kind of you know we produce something we get that kind of gratification you've been slaving away at this for more than a decade and I just you know I salute you and your colleagues for what you do the world needs people like you thank you thank

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 And one of those metrics is something that many of you have probably heard about before which is a measure of the delay of gratification. And it turns out that a child's ability to delay gratification at four and five years of age is one of the strongest predictors of these adult life outcomes.

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 This is what my own mother did. She didn't know it then, but researchers have a name for this. They call it risky play, and studies show that risky play is really important for kids, all kids, because it teaches hazard assessment, it teaches delayed gratification, it teaches resilience,

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 and when asked afterward, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal. So if this is true, what can we do? Well, you could resist the temptation to announce your goal. You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgment brings,

Keep your goals to...

 we get that kind of gratification. You've been slaving away at this for more than a decade, and I salute you and your colleagues for what you do. The world needs people like you. Thank you. Thank you.

Seth Berkley: HIV and...

 They would walk around. They would play with their skirts and pants. That child already, at four, understood the most important principle for success, which is the ability to delay gratification.

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 and we had to stop the our expedition because the safety of each other is more important than the ego gratification of making our trip the safety of each other's firm for very remote area we was

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 I wrote a poem, which seems to me to still hold for me today. "He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification.

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 because Americans like instant gratification. But my theme is that in this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways.

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 and it's prone to its own abundant cliche. But kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues. And it is a most edifying form of instant gratification.