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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.
I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
I love writing prose. I really love writing prose. It's very pleasurable for me.
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.
Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.
It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable to do in bed is r-e-a-d.
It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.
It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.
Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
There are some parallels between 'Zombieland' and 'Range 15,' except 'Zombieland,' with Woody Harrelson, there's this pleasurable fun in every scene.
When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.
Joy is something you can experience even when life is not pleasurable. Even in the midst of a long run, when your legs are burning, you can still feel joy.
I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
If, at any moment, reality gets dull or boring, our phone offers something more pleasurable, more productive and even more educational than whatever reality gives us.
It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
Don't allow negative people to steal your time and energy. Rather than complain about people you don't enjoy, choose to strike up conversations about pleasurable topics.
It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.
I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.
I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.
