The shot gives enormous gratification to Sir Iron Bottom.
It is not a humiliation not to win, it is a gratification to arrive somewhere".
Thus - according to Marcus - we prefer instant gratification to the chance of greater, longer-term benefits.
Nevertheless, the compulsion to work, and the awareness of the gratification to be derived by working well, remained irresistible.
There is also deferred gratification to overcome; until employees reach their 40s, retirement seems an awfully long way away.
This is especially hard for business owners — most of whom come from a discipline of delayed gratification — to grapple with.
So it is a warm gratification to find the new Hemingway book, "Men Without Women," a truly magnificent work.
"In the short run, this decision may give some sense of gratification to the Luddites of old Labour.
Remember when you were a kid and your parents harped on the importance of "delayed gratification" to get ahead in life?
It is largely about psychopathic personality disorder, where basically there is no sense of shame or guilt and a need for instant gratification, to control people.
You drive around, you get a ping when you need to pick someone up, you drop them off and get instant gratification to see how much $ you make.
