Enjoyment Quotes - Page 24

• Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reflection, Body, Reputation

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• That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Philosophy, Life Is, Life Philosophy

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• Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

  Chili Davis

  Baseball, Winning, Statistics

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• On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Character, People, Acting

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• The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

  Ezra Stiles

  Exercise, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

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• It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

  Jolene Blalock

  Who I Am, Years, Accepting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Trying, Elements

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• Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

  Mason Cooley

  Struggle, Taste, Fastidious

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• Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

  Nick Mason

  Artist, Thinking, Building

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• If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

  Ray Romano

  Golf, Games, Wonder

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• Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

  Steve Winwood

  Giving, Listening, Sound

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• Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

  Harriet Martineau

  Spiritual, Self, Desire

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• If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self, Decision, Examination

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Animal

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• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spiritual, Unique, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• We learn best in moments of enjoyment

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Moments

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• I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

  Derek Clayton

  Thinking, Suffering, Overcoming

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• I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all -why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, I'm doing my job, and that's what counts.

  John Agar

  Jobs, Fun, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Meaningful, Dream, Falling In Love

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• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Should Have

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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• The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, Technology, People

  "Rating humanity" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2007.

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• The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Acting, Energy, Spontaneous

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• In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Evil, Sometimes, Innocent

  "Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America". Book by Harry Barnard, p. 481, 1954.

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• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Self Esteem, Opposites

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Vex, Bitterness

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