Greatest Pleasures Quotes - Page 4

• The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Sex, People

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• I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Simple, Giving, Effort

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• We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Cookies, Coke, Life Is

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.

  Ventseslav Konstantinov

  Spiritual, Feelings, Different

  "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.

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• It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Heart, Giving

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hypocrite, Want, Next

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• The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love.

  Louise Labe

  Love Is, Next, Pleasure

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• Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Want, Flow, Philanthropy

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• Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

  Evo Morales

  Sports, Presidential, Alcohol

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• Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Perfect, Abhorrent, Pleasure

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• One of the greatest pleasures of working on shows is that I enjoy watching the actors - who are all younger than me now - and their careers. I love seeing how they're doing and seeing them getting good gigs and doing well.

  Kelly Bishop

  Careers, Actors, Gigs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

  Olive Schreiner

  Beautiful, Way, Pleasure

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Children, Teenager, Men

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• What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hate, Thinking, Pleasure

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• The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving.

  Ben Hogan

  Pleasure, Improving

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living. It?s arduous work and the money is very uncertain. On those rare occasions when I wander into a bookstore it amazes me to see the avalanche of literature and semi-literature that is turned out weekly in this country. The people who write these things are either desperate for money or love starved. Why should anyone on a nice balmy day lock oneself in an office and hit a typewriter for hours on end. I think one of the greatest pleasures in the world is not writing.

  Groucho Marx

  Country, Nice, Writing

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• When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.

  Eyvind Kang

  Next Day, Listening, One Day

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Ice Cream, Eating

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

  Jim Goad

  Careers, People, Confusing

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Novelty, Habit, Pleasure

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• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

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• I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Helping Others, Shadow, Pleasure

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.273, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Horse, Wife

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, Cities, London

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