Quotes: Enjoyment

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.