Enjoyment Quotes - Page 32

• The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

  Frances Mayes

  Goal, Priorities, Everyday

  "'Tuscan Sun' author on Italy's pleasures". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. March 10, 2010.

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• For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

  Ferran Adria

  Thrill, Restaurants

  "If the world's greatest chef cooked for a living, he'd starve". www.theguardian.com.

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• Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

  Gil Evans

  Inspiration, Party, Artist

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• The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Essence, Empowering

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• Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Egalitarianism, People, Hollywood

  "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.

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• We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

  Jesse Schell

  Games, Shifting, Economy

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• The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

  Sigmund Freud

  Games, Movement, Pleasure

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• The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Air, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I’m getting maximum enjoyment out of life and I’ll never stop.

  Shane McConkey

  Maximum

  "One Life to Live: McConkey Film Premieres at Squaw Valley" by Tim Sohn, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.

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• What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

  Alex Campbell

  Exhausted, Realizing, Pleasure

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• The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

  Allen Klein

  Adults, World, Lessons

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• Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

  Robert Morgan

  Thinking, These Days, Best Poetry

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• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.

  Charles Mackay

  Numbers, Evil, Reason

  Charles MacKay, Peter-Eric Philipp (2000). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.312, Essential Library

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• But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

  Felix Adler

  Founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture, May 15, 1876.

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• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  Bob Marshall

  Passion, Journey, Civilization

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• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

  William Law

  Resurrection

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.178

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• Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

  William Law (1801). “A serious call to a devout & holy life, abridged”, p.13

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  The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Soul, Satisfied

  Jonathan Edwards (1785). “The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc”, p.381

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• My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

  Jim Morrison

  Writing, Ambition, Reality

  "When You’re Strange" by Daniel Nester, www.poetryfoundation.org. October 19, 2011.

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• Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Individual

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.225

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• If you remove enjoyment of God from faith in God, it ceases to be faith.

  John Piper

  Faith In God, Remove, Ifs

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• It is a myth that man in his natural state is genuinely seeking God. Men do seek God. But they do not seek him for who he is. They seek him in a pinch as one who might preserve them from death or enhance their worldly enjoyments. Apart from conversion, no one comes to the light of God.

  John Piper

  Men, Light, Might

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• Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

  John Gould

  Laughter, Book, Talking

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• There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Men

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 24 Mar. 1831

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