Quotes About Deferred Gratification

#1. It's waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can't stand to wait. If you didn't get the deferred-gratification gene, you've got to work very hard to overcome that.

Charlie Munger

#2. The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a retirement account for old age. It can also serve as an effective rationalization for life avoidance.

Chris Guillebeau

#3. Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#4. The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

Daniel Libeskind

#5. I loved my girlfriend, but we were two people separated by an 'and'; my father and I were anagrams.

Ben Moore

#6. I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

Jimmy Fallon

#7. I think if you want to make an impact, you've got to say what you feel and do what you feel.

Cher Lloyd

#8. The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

David Lynch

#9. What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?

Charles Dickens

#10. All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Andrew Vachss

#11. Asking the question you have already now just to see if the person will LIE.

Margaret Watson

#12. I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

George Weinberg

#13. When it break-up with someone, glue it twice with a will.

Sam Houssami

#14. The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny The Elder

#15. I want to be treated like a human being.

Rosa Parks

#16. I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

Martin Lawrence

#17. Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

John Hodgman

#18. Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Denis Johnson

#19. We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

A.S. Byatt

#20. Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Philippa Gregory