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“I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.”

Wells Looks Body Spiritual Enjoy Emotional Intellectual Function Pushing

Author:Will Smith

“Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.”

People Way Self Spirit Enjoy Born Work Demand Determination Tasks Function Self Determination Entrepreneurial Mindless Dice Entrepreneurial Spirit Daily Tasks

Book:The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

Source: The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope

“I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

Giving Writing Facts Feelings Purpose Enjoy Function Tension Milk Cows Messiah Relieved Detest

Author:H. L. Mencken

“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'”

Said Enjoy Hours Rooms Food Eating Function Cooking Dinner Drawing Culinary Interrupted Anecdotes Eating Dinner

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.”

People Doe Enjoy Wealth Trouble Pride Function Spending Agents Chiefs Gentleman Host Sole Consumption Clerks Landlord

Author:David Lloyd

“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”

Giving Writing Feelings Order Literature Enjoy Function Tension Milk Cows Relieved

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Is it so wrong to just live life and enjoy it? Between fun and function, why must we choose the latter?”

Fun Enjoy Function Live Life Latter Just Live Just Living Life

Author:Arthur Nersesian