Sacredness Quote by Neil Postman

The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing things with magic, enchantment…

— Neil Postman

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

— Michael Chabon

“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we…

— Michael Chabon

“Unfortunately, psychology has not adequately come to grips with the difficult subject of entertainment (or with its opposite, boredom). Despite a few initial efforts…

— Thomas Gilovich

“Words are the writer's sorcery, our dark arts and our sleight of hand. They're our enchantment and our temptation”

— Karl Wiggins

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

“Any pursuit—be it physical or cognitive—that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.”

— Cal Newport

“In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.”

— Charles Baxter

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

— Michael Jackson

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to…

— Guy Kawasaki

Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for:…

— Anne Lamott

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget…

— Herbert Read