Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits.… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Life's true gift is the capacity to enjoy enjoyment.” — Star Trek The Next Generation Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“I did not want passion, I did not want pleasure. Perhaps I didn’t even want proof. And I did not want words,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone… — Marvin Shanken Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount… — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity… — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favourite book. So it is… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it,… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot. — Hyuna Copy Share Image
It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood… — Lodovico Dolce Copy Share Image
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. — Aaron Burr Copy Share Image
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
