You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification.

为此，你必须将自己的终极目标设定为获取真正的生活，而决不能因为一些世俗的感官享受就感到心满意足。

I needed to work towards my goals accepting that I may not get instant gratification.

我得努力朝目标前进，接受自己可能不会得到立即的满足感。

People today want fast food, sound bytes and instant gratification.

如今人们需要快餐，需要电台、电视台播放简短片断，还要即刻得到满足。

Because I get self-gratification, but I even get more gratification seeing other people's faces light up.

因为我能获得自我满足感，但看到别人眼前一亮，我的这种满足感会更多。

Because, sweetheart, it is my job to teach you about responsibility, setting goals, delayed gratification.

因为，亲爱的，我有责任让你学会履行职责，学会确立人生目标，学会先劳后享。

First, the need for immediate gratification and quick results.

第一，对即时满足和立竿见影的渴望。

That is, long-term goals begin to suffer at the expense of instant gratification.

就这样，长远目标开始遭受即时满足的损耗。

There's a quality you shouldn't have a need for instant gratification.

有一种品质你不应该需要即时满足。

“derive profound gratification from the prospect of humiliating their former masters and overlords.”

相反，他写道，数百万的人“从羞辱自己祖先和君主的过程获得极大的满足感。”

If you want to build self-discipline, you need to become a master of long-term gratification.

如果你想养成自律，你需要善于长期奖励。

Millions, he writes, “derive profound gratification from the prospect of humiliating their former masters and overlords.”

相反，他写道，数百万的人“从羞辱自己祖先和君主的过程获得极大的满足感。”

Our minds bounce from one distraction to the next, trapped in a vortex of distraction and instant gratification.

我们的大脑从一个分心事物跳到下一个分心事物，陷入分心和即时满足的漩涡中。

Along the way, they conquered their bad habits and they learned the importance of delaying gratification.

一路走来，他们战胜了自己的恶习，懂得了延迟满足的重要性。

Interest rates are the reward for deferring gratification, for renting out money that could have been spent today.

利率是对延迟满足的回报，是把本可以花在今天的钱租出去的回报。

On the topic of immediate gratification, I think back to that Excel document I created as a first-year teacher.

说到即时满足，我想起了当小班老师时做的那张表格。

" It provides automatic gratification" , says Rashida Jones, class of 97.

97 年级的 Rashida Jones 说：“它提供了自动的满足感。

It would afford me most heartfelt gratification to see him!

见到他，我会感到由衷的欣慰！

Would She not have employed some means to procure its gratification?

难道她不会采用某种手段来满足它吗？

This means that your present self prefers decisions that provide instant gratification.

这意味着现在的你更喜欢能立即带来满足的决定。

One of the biggest problems with procrastination is that there's delayed gratification.

拖延的最大问题之一是延迟满足。