Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Virginia Woolf

to teach without zest is a crime.

W. Somerset Maugham

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Laurence Olivier

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Henry Van Dyke

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

David Riesman

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Barbara Kingsolver

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Susan George

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Max Planck

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Philip James Bailey

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Tryon Edwards

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.

Winston Churchill

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

Manuel Hernandez

The tunnel is the problem. For people to come and go at their leisure would be ideal.

Joseph Joubert

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Nicholas Sparks

I can say that I don't have a lot of leisure time, just sitting around doing absolutely nothing, but that's okay.

Patrick Murray

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leisure with dignity.

Prince Philip

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

Plutarch

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!