Eric Weiner Quotes

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

Eric Weiner

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• Popularity
• Cafes

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• 'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Popularity
  • Stardom

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Community
  • Always
  • Pleasure

• I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Good
  • Think
  • Dad

• For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Critics
  • Some
  • Popularity

• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Sin

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Up
  • Women
  • Winning

• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Body
  • Pleasure
  • Regret

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Time
  • Pleasure
  • Realizing

• Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Pleasure

• It is a great pleasure to live with positive hope that the most deprived will gain access into the Kingdom of God.

  

  Mathieu Kerekou
  • Hope
  • Pleasure
  • Access

• Whatever was in the human nature of Christ was moved at the bidding of the divine will; yet it does not follow that in Christ there was no movement of the will proper to human nature, for the good wills of other saints are moved by God's will... For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Christ
  • Creature
  • Human Nature

• The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Environment
  • Christ
  • Changing

• Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Me
  • Terrible

• It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Pleasure
  • Human Nature
  • Popularity