Sentence examples for current gratification from inspiring English sources

Technological advances, and the ubiquity of always-on media, may be undermining one of the key psychological prerequisites for economic growth: patience, and the willingness to put off current gratification for future gains.

Because it requires four things that don't fit the business world's (or society's) current obsession with instant gratification--time, effort, diligence and character.

Although he says he enjoyed his previous career, he says he likes the instant gratification of his current one even more.

This story is a wonderful model of the hard work and persistence required to bring artistic impulses successfully to life (which in our current world filled with instant gratification, is a valuable reminder).

While I enjoy the strategy and technique necessary to be a great boxer, I also understand that MMA is reflective of our current times and serves the instant gratification we've become accustomed to today.

Physicians have chosen a profession requiring a great degree of "delayed gratification", sacrificing years of current income during the prolonged training period for higher income later in life.

(In a current season more about personal reflection than gratification, the show has also seen its numbers ebb to under four million viewers an episode, though it remains strong among the younger audience MTV covets).

Behavior analysts capitalize on the effective principles of reinforcement when shaping behavior by making rewards contingent on the person's current behavior, which promotes learning a delay of gratification.

It takes advantage of the momentum of current events and the click-happy, instant knowledge gratification era that we live in by handing us engaging histories that we would have spent hours attempting to piece together on Google.

Maybe, but as soon as the tiniest bit of social anxiety or discomfort creeps in, out comes the iPhone to remove you from your current space -- the one that didn't give you the immediate gratification you were looking for.

Societal impacts and current media trends have had the effect of teaching people to expect instant gratification.