#plea

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amount #audience #communicating #denying #exist

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#almost #any #been #bought #business

Everyone I built a course for thinks they have the best golf course in the world and I'm very pleased and proud of that. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#built #course #everyone #golf #golf course

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#fight #pleases #us #victory

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pleases #struggle #us #victory

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#agreeable #appreciated #cold #continuity #continuous

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#cause #consciousness #falsity #ignorance #inconstancy

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#bloody #earth #end #forever #head

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ↗

— Jean Paul

#mere #more #pleasure #something #than

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. ↗