#pleasure

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#composing #effect #even #had #hand

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#labor #pleasure #reverie #thought

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#back #come #early #eating #guilty

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #derive #goals #i #i am

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#beautiful #experience #gives #great #often

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #her #joy #justice #me