Pleasure Quotes

• Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Creativity
  • Imagine

• I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Teach
  • Performance
  • Intimacy

• My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Understanding
  • Pleasure

• For the pleasure of giving, because what's the point of just having? If I give a thing, I remember how happy we both were when I made the gift.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Pleasure
  • Gift
  • I Remember

• In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause your name with worthy wights to reign. In working wrong, if pleasure you attain, The pleasure soon shall fade, and void as vain; But of the deed throughout the life the shame Endures, defacing you with foul defame.

  

  Nicholas Grimald
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Artist
  • Painting
  • Greater

• Follow not after the vain, understand the ills of sense pleasures. One who is vigilant and meditative, obtains deep joy.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Vain

• It was a pleasure to burn.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Pleasure

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