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“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”

Way Should Pleasure Secret Poet Reader Findings Revealing Ingenious Matched Unlocking

Author:Diane Wakoski

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“Regardless of how often the appetite for entertainment violence becomes addictive, increased exposure does risk further desensitizing viewers. And the element of pleasure that they derive may lead them to regard violence as a more acceptable way of dealing with problems, and victimization as more tolerable so long as it befalls others, not themselves.”

Way May Long Doe Problem Pleasure Violence Risk Elements Regard Entertainment Appetite Acceptable Viewers Exposure Tolerable Victimization Dealing With Problems

Author:Sissela Bok

“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.”

Ifs World Way Should Spirit Order Enjoy Water My Own Pleasure Teach Wine Glasses Humble Chalice

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry-because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.”

Way Important Feelings Lost Forget Pleasure Subjects Never Forget Mud Puddles Splashing Mud Puddles

Author:Valerie Worth

“To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.”

People Ifs Way Believe Important Seems Life Is Joy Belief Enjoy Pleasure Good Things Disappointment Be Good Incapable Occasional Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Cynic

Book:It's Been a Good Life

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”

Thinking Way Writing Enough Able Hate Process Pleasure Roles Focus Written Losing Aim Conquer Good Enough Enthusiastic Never Good Enough

Author:Julie Andrews

“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page”

Thinking Way Littles Book Happens Pleasure Interesting Style Pages Surprise Sentences Things Happen Surprising

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.”

Way Pain Joy Pleasure Sorrow Mass Enlightenment Buddhist Lifts Dimensions Cycles Cosmology Transient Pain Pleasure

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

Way Pain Pleasure Acting Quality Moral Virtue Opposites Relation Assuming Vices Best Way Pain And Pleasure Moral Virtues Nicomachean Ethics

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

Ifs Way Self Bigs Strong Pleasure Movement Buddhism News Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Very Strong Unlikely Big News

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.”

Way Romance Life Is Found Pleasure Emotion Fans My Family One Way Another Life Incorporating

Author:Marc Anthony

“It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.”

People Way Persons Has Beens Made Character Fun Pleasure Paper Picks Fascinating Boss Straightforward

Author:Garrison Keillor

“There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.”

Way Trying Kind Different Seems Enjoy Pleasure Taken All Time Rebellion Different Kinds Negativity Rebellious

Author:Zac Efron

“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”

Source: 1816-1828

“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.”

Way Feels Firsts May Self Pain Speak Pleasure Self Love Reflection Persuasion Eloquence Without Pain

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Believe I Can Two Sex Difficult Pleasure Practice Issues Don't Believe Believer Manage Theme Links Believe In God Parts Of Life Baptized Facing Death

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell within him from which rise everlastingly the impulses which threaten his civilization. He has the faculty of imagining for himself more in the way of pleasure and satisfaction than he can possibly achieve. Everything that he gains he pays for in more than equal coin; compromise and the compounding with defeat constitute his best way of getting through the world. His best qualities are the result of a struggle whose outcome is tragic. Yet he is a creature of love.”

“Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”

Knows Men Way May Pleasure Animal Money Existence He Man Higher Highest Experiments Planes Sensations Avarice Thrift Ascending

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.”

Knows World Way Looks Mean Moving Pleasure Virtue Taste Pure Down And Filled Busy Sensuality Regions Abiding Gluttony

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.”

“sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.”

Way Firsts Different Pleasure Seeing Travel Findings Sight Faults Different Ways Enjoyment Latter Admiration Novelty Animated Fault Finding

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over.”

Knows Way Writing Firsts Kind Two Pleasure Childhood Coming Out

Author:J. E. Buckrose

“Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.”

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Book:Sermons of George Whitefield

Source: Sermons of George Whitefield

“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”

“I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that I've done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess it's a protest against mortality. But it's been so much fun! It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

World Way Giving Done Fun Differences Pleasure Giving Up Curiosity Enormous Making A Difference Protest Mortality Making A Difference In The World

Author:Deborah Meier

“Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Persons Care Pleasure Bases Selflessness

Book:Confess: A Novel

Source: Confess: A Novel

“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”

“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"”

People Way Lines Pleasure Boys Hopefully Bass

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure to do so and because it relieved the ever-building pressure of the demanding world around me. It's always served me as a way of appraising, and controlling overwhelming experiences. But this need, and desire, was always in conflict with my need to "survive."”

Thinking World Way Needs Mean Desire Pleasure Secret Building Conflict Pressure Overwhelming Relieved Secretive

Author:Philip Schultz

“Often, I think you find that you're enjoying certain things, you've got this new way of listening, and you find that you really enjoy the way that sounds on it and the way this other thing sounds on it and the way that other thing sounds on it. So, you're finding a new pleasure that you didn't know about before.”

Thinking Knows Way Certain Enjoy Sound Pleasure Listening Findings New Ways

Author:Brian Eno

“And another thing about German symphonic development. I tell you, our cold kvass soup is a horror to the Germans, and yet we eat it with pleasure. And their cold cherry soup is a horror to us, and yet it sends a German into ecstacy. In short, symphonic development is just like German philosophy and soup-all worked out and systematized. When a German thinks, he reasons his way to a conclusion. Our Russian brother, on the other hand, starts with a conclusion and then might amuse himself with some reasoning.”

Thinking Way Reason Philosophy Hands Might Pleasure Brother Cold Development Horror Conclusion Reasoning Soup Cherries German Philosophy

Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.”

“Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.”

“You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.”

Way Love Feels Heart Real Soul Ends Pleasure Knowing Vulnerable Scare Mates Loyal True Friend Soul Mate Greatest Love Reggae Finding Strength

Author:Bob Marley

“I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.”

Way Felt Pleasure Meetings International Profit Association Representatives Secured Norwegians

Author:Lester B. Pearson

“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.”

Knows Way Writing I Can Use Names Pleasure Grief Destiny Terrible Despair Familiar Excitement Traits Rulers Almighty Our Destiny Your Destiny Paralysis Numbing

Author:Margo Jefferson

“I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.”

Knows Way Want Persons Character Hate Actors Pleasure Gone Knowing Too Much I Hate Agree Divorce Screens Cinema Viewers Alcoholics Knowing Too Much

Author:Keira Knightley

“As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.”

People Way Mind Young Spirit Literature Pleasure Activity Texting

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.”

Way Children Hands Spirit Sex Parent Pleasure Victory Response Defeat Profit Manipulation Free Spirit Practise

Author:Fay Weldon

“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Kind Moving Lines Pleasure Levels Secret Fiction Focus Capable Woods Moving Forward Rough Builder Cathedrals Caterpillars Rough Drafts

Author:Karen Russell

“If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without reciprocation, is that why young women, even unintentionally, turn to getting something else in return for sex? Whether it be popularity, career success, professional attention.”

Ifs Way Giving Young Turns Girl Sex Pleasure Attention Boys Careers Return Sexuality Expected Popularity Young Women Career Success

Author:Cris Mazza

“I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.”

Thinking Way Light Political Pleasure Silence Sky Color Storm Bridges Streams Tails

Author:Ben Lerner

“I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.”

Way Giving Lasts Force Pleasure Oneself Monsters Surrender Strongest

Author:Barry Webster

“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.”

Way Want Writing Purpose Reading Pleasure Situation Century Missing Emotional Reader Scene Late Russia France Related Nineteenth Century Disinterested Utilitarian

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.”

Way Humans Problem Pain Enjoy Human Beings Pleasure Source Capacity Enjoyment Confused Attachment Limitless Dissatisfaction Grasping Source Of Happiness

Author:Thubten Yeshe