The ability to delay gratification is essential to self-regulation, or self-control.
The ability to delay gratification is essential.
The point being that delay of gratification and patience are essential to success.
The point is that delay of gratification and patience are essential to success.
And yet after eating, drinking and oxygen sexual gratification is one of our essential needs.
Richard Silberman, creative director at Brand Remedy, says the growth of social media and advances in technology, which offer customers instant gratification from services, means it is essential for businesses to be agile and responsive to change.
The original "Magic Mike," from 2012, was built on the delicious irony of the celebratory energy of dubious fantasy, on the essential contrast between the solid (dancers' bodies) and the elusive (the illusion of gratification that strippers provide).
Those contests were an essential part of my identity, not because of an obnoxious need for external gratification, but because I enjoyed trying to win them.
tests, according to Paul Tough, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine and the radio program This American Life, is an emphasis on the character traits -- deferred gratification, grit, optimism, flexibility, curiosity, conscientiousness, resourcefulness, and resilience -- that are essential to success.
When citizens and their leaders do not model delayed gratification and self-control in energy use and consumption of other nonrenewable resources, teaching self-control in schools becomes especially challenging and ever more essential.
Instantaneous gratification.
