Sentences with phrase «gratification which»

Anyone who is paying interest at these rates is essentially paying for nothing, other than accelerated gratification which they've not earned.

I'm the quintessential person who requires instant gratification which usually leads to me seeing something I like and buying it at full price.

She's also exercising restraint and delayed gratification which is supposed to be important.

I can not adequately express the gratification which your letter brings me.

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When we lack patience, we are unable to delay gratification for more than the moment, which fills us with frustration.

By choosing to pay themselves first — which you can do, too, by diverting a portion of your paycheck into a savings account or scheduling auto - transfers from checking to savings — wealthy people reliably hit their targets, while also learning to delay gratification and avoiding wealth busters like credit card debt.

Tech encourages the habit of «instant gratification,» which assists us when in the context of productivity, but also diminishes our patience level for the deeper thinking required to be truly creative.

If not, there's always the much - appreciated donation, which offers individuals a tax deduction and, for the museum, instant and obligation - free gratification.

In addition, addicts repeatedly surfed the mobile web in search of «instant gratification» content, such as news updates, and they were easily distracted by incoming alerts from mobile messenger and social networking apps, such as KakaoTalk (which is similar to WhatsApp) and Facebook.

Research indicates that those children who do have a set of chores have higher self - esteem, are more responsible, and are better able to deal with frustration and delay gratification, all of which contribute to greater success in school.

Our economy is based on relentless consumption and instant gratification, which makes saving and living within your means a difficult challenge.

Ms. Hebert referred to those «who get a sense of engagement from the very instant gratification of Twitter or Facebook», to which Mr. Coyne followed with how «the immediacy of social media... greatly enlarges the significance of incredibly trivial moment to moment events».

Being involved in decision - making can help kids understand the trade - offs required in economic transactions, which can make it easier for them to delay gratification.

According to the psychology literature, the degree to which people feel connected to their future determines whether they are willing to delay gratification today for the benefit of their future (Hershfield et al. 2009).

If you do ANYTHING for your own gratification it means you're a humanist... which is all Satanism really is.

Sentimentality is emotional satisfaction without emotional connection, an agreement between the artist and the audience to skip straight to the gratification, which, due to the skipping, is not so gratifying after all — as Shakespeare knowingly suggests in his Sonnet 129 («Th» expense of spirit in a waste of shame»).

Don't just go after that which promises immediate gratification or a quick jolt of happiness.

At the same time it seems possessive, self - centred, demanding of immediate gratification, heedless of the self - denial and the dedication which goes with enlistment in the service of the Kingdom of God.

But the expression of this good gift must come inside a relationship through which it can communicate the holiness of life as well as the gratification of biological desire.

The mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments of the spirit.

«57 But youth as yet untouched by tragedy is especially sensitive to the harmony of the soul's dynamism with ideals which go beyond self - gratification.

Augustine snatched up the «book of the Apostle» he had been reading, opened it, and read in silence the passage on which his eyes first lighted: «Not in dissipation or drunkenness, nor in debauchery and lewdness, nor in arguing and jealousy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh or for the gratification of your desires» (Rom.

God cements mankind into society for their greater good, while each, consenting to submit his exercise of the several powers with which he is vested to the cognizance of the whole body, agrees to deny himself such gratifications as are deemed incompatible with the felicity of the rest....

In contrast to television «s affirmation of the ultimate value of creature comforts and self - gratification, Jesus affirms that if anyone wants to be a follower he must leave self - centeredness behind and follow him, which involves taking up the cross (Matt.

Responding to Maslow's call for a «technology of joy,» Assagioli defined enjoyment as that which results from the satisfaction of any need; pleasure he saw as resulting from the gratification of a «basic need» (Maslow's term); joy from the satisfaction of a higher need.

A push toward a scientific sovereignty in which the empirical world was the only world, a mechanization of life through the emerging structures of technology and mass industry, a cultivation of persons along the lines of immediate gratification and fulfillment of base impulses, and the use of mass culture by dictatorial regimes to shape a people.

All this is taking place within a profoundly hedonistic culture that sees value only in short - term gratification and which is inimical to and corrosive of any form of commitment.

For the first time in modern history, young girls come of age in a world in which their expectations are limited to hooking up with men who wish to use their bodies for gratification.

In virtue of that gift, by leading a life according to the Spirit, the spouses are capable of rediscovering the particular gratification of which they have become sharers.

We are created for communion with God and our neighbour in a life which offers communion on terms which require courage and trust in a future we can not see, which postpones fulfilment and does not allow every kind of immediate gratification.

Professor Berger identifies some twenty - one of these needs, which may also be thought of as uses or gratifications or desires:

It is a matter unfortunately too often seen in history to call for much remark, that when a living want of mankind has got itself officially protected and organized in an institution, one of the things which the institution most surely tends to do is to stand in the way of the natural gratification of the want itself.

With time the point emerges at which our plans for self - gratification are hopelessly at cross-purposes with the commands of the Jesus we have sworn to follow.

Yet neither an emotional love based on desire for self - gratification nor a calculated balancing of tastes is sufficient to carry a couple through the stormy days which almost inevitably come.

In a world of instant sense - gratification, few choose the long - term pathway to everlasting freedom, which is belief in God.

The uses - and - gratifications approach has served to emphasize two research perspectives: (1) that the audience has prior social and psychological needs which are brought to the communication experience, and (2) that these prior needs force the individual actively to seek communications which will gratify these needs.

There are a number of studies which indicate that there are other gratifications being sought and gained from religious programs than specifically «religious» ones.

(33) In the former book Katz, Blumler, and Gurevitch outline the uses - and - gratifications approach as being «concerned with (1) the social and psychological origins of (2) needs, which generate (3) expectations of (4) the mass media and other sources, which lead to (5) differential patterns of media exposure (or engagement in other activities) resulting in (6) need gratification and (7) other consequences, perhaps mostly unintended ones.»

This research insight may imply that religious programs on television will be limited in their effectiveness with those age groups which do not use television as a source of gratification for serious content, and therefore that television should exist as only one element in a much broader strategy for ministry and evangelism.

It is defiled when done for physical gratification, which most se - x is these days, whether same or opposite se - x, whether in marriage or not.

No New Age proponent of the culture of death and instant gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family life.

With 365, consumers will experience fast payment transactions, in some cases requiring less than five seconds, which addresses Gen Y's preference for instant gratification and high - tech payments.

Also, I spread them into a rectangular bar pan to make cookie bars, which eliminates the time it takes to make individual cookies (which helps with my delayed gratification issue).

I find the arguments bemoaning the delay of our spoils to be sort of confusing (beyond instant gratification needs, which I get).

They will begin to develop emotional maturity, such as an understanding of the value of delayed gratification or helping others, which will help them navigate their preteen and teen years.

In the very same week that we did spring shearing, which makes it all feel like instant gratification, really.

He's possibly predatory if taking advantage of his ex-wife's lingering emotional attachment for self gratification (which would also be morally repugnant) and purposely seducing married and engaged women.

outside of their village, to teach babies that crying brought rejection, not gratification of their needs [crying infants could alert an enemy] I am reminded of Dr. Tom Dooley writing about Vietnamese women, who squatted all day in rice paddies, which was great for their pelvic floors, and who had babies the right size for their Asian pelves, and perhaps it was a factor, but he never saw the dead ones, did he?

The authors of the study speculated that this phenomenon is related to parents using candy to control their children's behavior, which gets in the way of children learning to delay gratification.

If nurtured, the brain develops all - important «executive function skills,» which include the ability to focus, filter distractions, self - regulate, plan ahead, adjust to changes, control impulsivity, resist temptation, delay gratification, and remember, organize and use information.