Sentences with phrase «little gratification»

Largely, these tasks feel like they were included to pad playtime and offer little gratification for their completion.

You put in so much effort just to make sure everything is exactly right and you get very little gratification from doing them.

With their whole life ahead of them and the expectation they will one day be earning a real income, why should they further postpone the little gratification they might get from the extra $ 25 or $ 50 left over at the end of the month?

elana, you are a lifesaver;) i find little gratification in many of my low carb baking adventures... these cookies do NOT fall under that category.

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But I was a little surprised by what she had to say about being able to abstain from instant gratification.

If you can find a way to delay gratification a bit, you'll not only be able to keep your days filled with hard work, but you'll also be able to truly enjoy the small pleasures in life, a little at a time.

He sounds like a little kid who's playing house with 4 women for short term gratification, but doesn't consider or acknowledge the long term affects on the children or on society.

If you are one of the unlucky 13 or 14 year old virgin girls... you likely just saw your mother, father, and little brother killed before your eyes and the monsters who did this thing now haul your ass home to be repeatedly raped for their sexual gratification.

For others, there is relatively little such attraction, but when denied access to members of the other sex, they may yet consider finding gratification with members of their own.

But children who are raised this way end up becoming children with very little experience using the psychological muscles of deferred gratification, emotional regulation, and self - discipline.

It's about impulse control and deferred gratification, values that can only be effectively taught if one is willing to impose a little adversity and emotional dissonance on one's children.

They're learning to budget (one son even tracks his spending in a little notebook), to save (shiny, new electronics are expensive), and even to delay gratification in order to reach some short - term goal (they'll often make their lunch for school every day, banking the allotment we've given them for the cafeteria).

In an age of instant gratification, both adults and kids are used to getting things they want throughout the entire year, with little waiting time or...

Instant gratification (at least a little bit) is really important for keeping up my willpower.

And now we received the ultimate gratification of a little baby!

If you take a little time to peruse some of the online profiles you will find various opportunities that the men and women of such a specialized dating service afford and expect in return for their mutual gratification.

In the comedy - drama Ruby Sparks, however, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris («Little Miss Sunshine») take the idea that we naturally create our own experience and turn it into a magic trick, a one - of - a-kind miracle that provides ego gratification and manipulation of others.

While elearning itself helps the instant gratification needs of learners by being available whenever and wherever, elearning development needs little more time to be created well and can't really be instant.

Your Jeep will look better suited for around town cruising with these beautiful billet aluminum climate control knobs — simply yank the stock ones off and pop these on for a little instant gratification.

While this indicates high demand for their products, it would give them little comfort as some of «could - have - been - their» customers are going to instant gratification here and now with Amazon as they have no other option for wireless - enabled eReaders.

You might have to endure plenty of whining at first, but soon enough, delayed gratification will become a way of life for your little ones.

These pre-skinned polygonal shapes were constructed from oxidized aluminium panels, creating hollow and colourless industrial abstractions that offer little in the way of aesthetic gratification.

For instance, in Chelsea Lehnmann's painting, «Sondage» (2015), there is very little doubt, that the dark hazy background is not a visual trick, rather an effort to challenge the instant gratification and gimmicks of post art (it has been previously mentioned, Martin Creed's Turner prize winning work, an empty room in which a light is turned on and off is a prime example).

Many of us have minor addictions such as this that we can't get right, where we know that we are sacrificing our own long - term well - being for a little instant gratification.

In the end, there won't be a silver bullet solution to developing more sustainable packaging practices, as modern packaging itself is based on a culture of disposability, waste and a mentality of instant gratification, with little thought to the life cycle of all that stuff.

And yet — perhaps due to the high value our society places on the capacity to delay gratification and inhibit public displays of destructive emotions and impulses — problems linked with OC have received little attention or been misunderstood.

People would rather you tell them sweet little lies that they want to hear vs. the harsh truth that they don't want to hear, something like the predatory self - gratification - seeking, unconscionable (thus sociopathic) lothario, who tells every female he meets that he will love her for eternity, except his version of eternity lasts only until he sees his next conquest / mark cross his field of vision.

Little quick ones are o.k. cause I have instant gratification, but walls and that dining room table — that's another story!

It's like this... I had the can of spray paint in my hand and the little things were just sitting on top of the outside trash can and my choice was: * go get paper and carefully cover the trash can * point and spray... I went with the instant gratification, who could blame me, I'm spray painting a bird cage today do ya want me to finish painting the trash can?