Sentence examples for external gratification from inspiring English sources

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.

It requires no medication, expenditure or external gratification.

What I learned in researching that article is that leaders who focus on external gratification -- money, fame and power -- instead of inner satisfaction, tend to abandon their roots and lose their grounding.

If it's for external gratification only, the chances are you won't maintain the motivation necessary to pursue that goal when obstacles or barriers arise.

The personality trait of extraversion is concerned with the tendency of being concerned with or obtaining gratification from the external environment.

Libido was supposed to consist of a kind of motivational energy internally generated with a certain strength or impetus, having the aim of achieving sexual gratification through interaction with some external object.

In infants and the cognitively impaired, the disease has normally been attributed to over-stimulation and under-stimulation from parents and caregivers, causing the individual to seek self-gratification and self-stimulus due to the lack or abundance of external stimuli.

Ego gratification.

You practice delayed gratification.

"People want instant gratification.

Gotanda smiled with gratification.