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Quotes About Enjoyment

Open your heart to wine.
~ Wesley D'Amico
The right tool turns work into fun."
~ Wesley D'Amico
A Bargain's Not A Bargain If Nobody Likes It.
~ wichypoo
It's fun to win, sure, but if you only have fun when you win, you completely lose the joy of just playing a game, and being part of a team that works together. You're not going to win every game you play, so if winning is the only way you have fun, you're going to have a bad time pretty often.
~ Wil Wheaton
I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused
~ Wil Wheaton
Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
~ Wilfred Owen
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Ich finde... dass sich ein Buch gerade vorzugsweise zu einem freundschaftlichen Geschenk eignet, man liest es oft, man kehrt oft dazu zurück, man naht sich ihm aber nur in ausgewählten Momenten, braucht es nicht wie eine Tasse, ein Glas, einen Hausrat in jedem gleichgültigen Augenblick des Lebens und erinnert sich so immer des Freundes im Augenblick eines würdigen Genusses.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The objective of policy should be to reduce human suffering. We aim for a lower U-index in society. Dealing with depression and extreme poverty should be a priority." "The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?" "Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.
~ Daniel Kahneman
While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The answer to this question may surprise you, but it is straightforward: you get pleasure (or displeasure) from your car when you think about your car, which is probably not very often.
~ Daniel Kahneman
plausible interpretation is that higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life. There is suggestive evidence in favor of this idea: priming students with the idea of wealth reduces the pleasure their face expresses as they eat a bar of chocolate!
~ Daniel Kahneman
To get pleasure from eating, for example, you must notice that you are doing it. We found that French and American women spent about the same amount of time eating, but for Frenchwomen, eating was twice as likely to be focal as it was for American women. The Americans were far more prone to combine eating with other activities, and their pleasure from eating was correspondingly diluted.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Hedonism: The theory that pleasure is the sole value in life, so go for it. Likewise, pain makes life less pleasant, so do whatever is necessary to avoid it. In short, if it feels good, it is good. There are many philosophical variations of Hedonism, all of them a pleasure to think about.
~ Daniel Klein
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST
~ Daniel Klein
Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.
~ Daniel M. Gilbert
I like chicken.
~ Daniel Machado
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
~ Daniel Pennac
The Reader's Bill of Rights: The right to not read… to skip pages… to not finish… to reread… to read anything… to escapism… to read anywhere… to browse… to read out loud… to not defend your tastes.
~ Daniel Pennac
El tiempo de leer, como el tiempo de amar, dilatan el tiempo de vivir.
~ Daniel Pennac
On se prépare à la jouissance du siècle, et, le moment venu, elle a un goût de Fernet Branca. Sur ce point comme sur quelques autres, Julia a raison : ne jamais investir dans la promesse du plaisir. Tout de suite ou pas du tout.
~ Daniel Pennac
El tiempo para leer como el tiempo para amar dilatan el tiempo para vivir
~ Daniel Pennac
I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
~ Daniel Pennac