Quotes About Joy

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

Joy is important in life, not just football. Joy is being serious and professional, too. Joy can be reaching your potential by training hard and being disciplined. Joy can be following the rules you need to follow.

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.'

Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.

Now if I go back home with an Olympic medal, the reaction of my family will give me immense satisfaction.

My granddad was very funny and I really loved making people laugh. I used to do puppet shows and I really liked seeing people's reactions.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!

How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The real friends are the ones who celebrate with you.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.