#pleas

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#artist #experiences #great #his #impression

We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#basically #beer #better #give #having

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#comes #emotional #had #having #impact

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am

People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet. ↗

— Alain Prost

#car #drive #f1 #maybe #people

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#different kinds #forsake #kinds #many #others

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#essential #humanity #important #lies #moreover

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i #killers #like #me #movies

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#grew #i #new #new york #past