“These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life. — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. — Matthew Ashford Copy Share Image
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any… — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph,… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
