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Quotes About Enjoyment

Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.
~ Anthony Powell
Although she seemed to be enjoying the party, even to the extent of being in sight of hysteria, she had evidently also reached the stage when moving to another spot had become an absolute necessity to her; not because she was in any way dissatisfied with the surroundings in which she found herself, but on account of the coercive dictation of her own nerves, not to be denied in their insistence that a change of scene must take place.
~ Anthony Powell
That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.
~ Anthony Powell
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. —TONY ROBBINS
~ Anthony Robbins
Las preguntas que solucionan problemas 1. ¿Qué hay de grande en este problema? 2. ¿Qué hay que no sea perfecto todavía? 3. ¿Qué estoy dispuesto a hacer para lograr que sea como yo quiero? 4. ¿Qué estoy dispuesto a no seguir haciendo para lograr que sea como yo quiero? 5. ¿Cómo puedo disfrutar del proceso, mientras hago lo necesario para lograr que sea como yo quiero?
~ Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.
~ Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you're here.
~ Anthony Robbins
Many people have a lot of money but not much lifestyle. They spend their lives watching numbers accumulate in a bank account and miss out on the joy and enjoyment they can create and share along the way.
~ Anthony Robbins
Index your important money, then go have fun," Burton Malkiel told me. "It's better than going to the racetrack." But, he said, limit yourself to 5% or less of your total assets or portfolio.
~ Anthony Robbins
What have I learned today? What did I contribute or improve? What did I enjoy?
~ Anthony Robbins
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
~ Anthony Trollope
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious. She would be constant with him day and night to make him understand that his duty to his country required him to be in very truth its chief ruler.
~ Anthony Trollope
Eating is an occupation from which I think a man takes the more pleasure the less he considers it. A rural labourer who sits on the ditch-side with his bread and cheese and an onion has more enjoyment out of it than any Lucullus
~ Anthony Trollope
Distance in time and place, but especially in time, will diminish friendship. It is a rule of nature that it should be so, and thus the friendships which a man most fosters are those which he can best enjoy.
~ Anthony Trollope
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade
~ Anthony Trollope
Let's have another bottle of 'cham,' said Captain Clutterbuck, when their dinner was nearly over. 'Cham' is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
~ Anthony Trollope
One must never let one's little pleasures interfere with the really important affairs of life.
~ Anya Seton
Hay 3 cosas que siempre vamos a preferir: lo bueno, lo útil y lo placentero.
~ Aristóteles
the use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;
~ Aristotle
This is the main question, with what activity one's leisure is filled.
~ Aristotle
A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.
~ Armistead Maupin
Meat may go up in price — it has done — but books won't. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses — these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.
~ Arnold Bennett
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.
~ Art Buchwald
Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
~ Art Buchwald