#pleasure

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#art #contemplation #divines #herself #into

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#artists #men #only #pleasure #their

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#begins #child #climax #compare #ending

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. ↗

— Donald Trump

#balancing #instead #interested #make #more

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

#imagery #pain #pleasure #vocabulary

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

#dreams #found #hard #joys #pleasant

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ↗

— Aristotle

#perfection #pleasure #puts #work

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

#class #even #income #mail #means

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#being #had #human #human being #i

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more