And in America it was called Our Final Hour because Americans like instant gratification.

Movies produced for the sexual gratification of consumers reveal cultural norms of restriction, transgression, and otherness.

That child already, at four, understood the most important principle for success, which is the ability to delay gratification.

CA Seth, most of us do work where every month, we produce something we get that kind of gratification.

The objects of anger are perceived as a hindrance to the gratification of the desires of the angry person.

Teens also, however, will take risks because they find the reward (such as instant gratification or peer acceptance) more valuable.

You can delay the gratification that the social acknowledgement brings, and you can understand that your mind mistakes the talking for the doing.

Or in other words, I think the Bhutanese believe happiness equals wanting what you have imagine gratitude divided by having what you want gratification.

To borrow a phrase from Carrie Fisher, which is in my bio there I'll just toss it out again These days even instant gratification takes too long.

Yet postponing, for the sake of immediate gratification, a certain degree of planning for the future collective good can be as disastrous as indulging in utopian schemes.

The President of the Conference expressed the gratification of the Conference and congratulated Bolivia, Cameroon, Lebanon and the United States on ratifying the Convention and the Protocols.

Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.

But in its quest to enhance its great power prestige today, Russia seems willing to sacrifice its long term security interests in the region for immediate diplomatic gratification.

Negative reinforcement and delayed gratification are unlikely to achieve their goals unless there is a perceived light at the end of the tunnel a future reward for today s sacrifices.

In my capacity as representative of a former non permanent member of the Council, I express my delegation's gratification at addressing you as President of this United Nations organ.

Around the entire planet, we are approaching some kind of singularity, with the market pandering to our fundamental short term natures by offering us instant gratification and long term destruction.

In India, for example, feminists articulated to me a vision of women s equality that was family centered rather than self centered, and that valued service to community rather than personal gratification.

The permit license quota culture of statist socialism allowed politicians and bureaucrats to use public service as a vehicle for private gratification, giving birth to a culture of corruption that still persists.

The attitudinal systems that endorse such unequal structures create an environment that permits abusive behavior wherein a woman or girl can be beaten, used for sexual gratification, or used for cheap labor.

But, while history is replete with murderous regimes applauded by cowed and deceived masses, the greater risk for democratic nations is that their citizens withdraw into apathy and short term thinking for immediate gratification.

Women s freedom to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights is also a freedom to fully enjoy all facets and forms of one s sexuality, and to engage in intercourse purely for the sake of sexual gratification.

The Pakistan Penal Code contains a number of provisions (Sections 161 to 171) dealing with offences committed by Government Servants Section 161 Public Servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act.

In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.

It reminds us that much of success in a capitalist society is based on cultural and historical factors that produce qualities such as innovativeness, willingness to tolerate risk, and willingness to defer gratification through savings and education.

Even the most rudimentary understanding of psychology supports Hollande s assessment. Negative reinforcement and delayed gratification are unlikely to achieve their goals unless there is a perceived light at the end of the tunnel a future reward for today s sacrifices.

While the members of those groups generally shared the ideological objective of the group, they often also used their position to gain material advantage and gratification, resulting in a high number of serious violations of the laws of war.

Indeed, perhaps the biggest culture value challenge of all is short term thinking. Around the entire planet, we are approaching some kind of singularity, with the market pandering to our fundamental short term natures by offering us instant gratification and long term destruction.

Noting with gratification that the Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their DestructionSee CD 1478. will be held in Nicaragua in September 2001,

Once you tell me you would like to save more in the future, let's say every January you're going to be saving more automatically and it's going to go away from your paycheck to the 401 plan before you see it, before you touch it, before you get the issue of immediate gratification.