“I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” WorldWantWritingMindWellsMayArtBookAbleArtistPleasureAttentionStudyPiecesProductsReaderSucceedStructureAdmireDividing Author:Annie Dillard
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!” YearsHeartDesirePleasureGoneGreaterExampleSucceedMusicalBlowCrowdsNoiseGenerousInternalsEnginesOrgansRealismDistributionAutomobileViolinSlapCombiningWagnerRehearsingRestrainingGroaningCombustionSatedUst Author:Luigi Russolo
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.” MenStillsArtistProcessEnjoyPleasureEffortObjectsTruth IsSucceedHighestRemainsSatisfactionTheoreticalCoveringDiscardedUncovering Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.” ThinkingChildrenParentPleasureSeeingSucceed Author:Jerry Reinsdorf
“If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.” IfsPleasureEffortLordSacrificeHumilityDivinePleaseSucceedDevotionTrust In GodSerenityTranquilityOur LordRecipe For SuccessCommitment To GodSelf SacrificeSubmissiveKeep The FaithKeep BelievingStay HumbleDivine WillChristian HumilityUltimate Sacrifice Book:Letters to Persons in the World Source: Letters to Persons in the World