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.

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.

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.

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.

Immediate problems require immediate responses.

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.

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.

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.

5.1 Immediate actions

Implementation is immediate.

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.

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.

Truly , you love immediate gain

Truly , you love immediate gain

Implementation was immediate wherever applicable.

The immediate humanitarian emergency continues.

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.

The immediate causes are well known.

No ! But you love the immediate

No ! But you love the immediate

We must face immediate threats immediately.

The immediate humanitarian needs are immense.

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.

But the demonstration effect would be immediate.

Calls for immediate debt restructuring went unheeded.

The two became immediate and lifelong friends.

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.

Plus, spoken word poetry allows for immediate connections.

Potential international risks go beyond the immediate neighborhood.

Trade, however, is not the only immediate concern.

But that is not the most immediate concern.

An online petition calls for his immediate release.

Immediate action is needed to address this issue.

Immediate action was taken to address OIOS' recommendations.

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.

Volatile stock market, getting negative feedback that's also immediate.

In a sense, India s democracy sometimes hinders immediate growth.