Robert Kennedy, Jr.

If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is when you have something you really love to do and you can integrate that into your work life. I feel like it's a real privilege that I get to do something that is good for my community and good for the world. But it's also pleasurable for me.

American Activist

Glen Duncan

If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.

British Author

Kate Forsyth

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Australian Author

Karen Salmansohn

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

American Author

Gunther Schuller

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?

American Composer

Yotam Ottolenghi

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.

Israeli Chef

Anton Chekhov

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Russian Dramatist

John Mackey

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

American Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

Canadian Writer

Use 'pleasurable' when expressing personal enjoyment from an activity or experience.

Personal Feelings

'Pleasurable' conveys a positive emotion and is similar to feeling pleasure or joy.

Positive Emotion

What is pleasurable varies from person to person. Use it to express personal taste.

Subjectivity

 It's only among humans that you find very large groups of people who are able to cooperate and join together into groups, but in this case, groups that are united to fight other groups. This probably comes from our long history of tribal living, of tribal psychology. And this tribal psychology is so deeply pleasurable that even when we don't have tribes, we go ahead and make them,

Jonathan Haidt: The...

 humans that you find very large groups of people who are able to cooperate join together into groups but in this case groups that are united to fight other groups this probably comes from our long history of tribal living a tribal psychology um and this tribal psychology is so deeply pleasurable that even when we don't have tribes

The moral roots of...

 These exercises in imagination help us define what it is we want. They allow us to flirt with what's possible before having to make any decisions. And they're also innately pleasurable, even if those fantasies never actually materialize. Imagination is such a powerful tool.

The Relationship Between...

 disrupt our reality. So, we don't just laugh at truth, we laugh at the pleasurable, edifying revelation of flaws, incongruities, overlaps, and outright conflicts in the supposedly ordered system of truths we use to define the world and ourselves.

What's the definition of...

 whether pleasurable or painful? Do you yourself have more value when you're experiencing real life's pleasures and pains? Nozick's experiment may not provide all the answers, but it forces us to consider whether real life, though imperfect,

Would you opt for a life...

 so the pain becomes an important moment where a person tries to generate a new kind of experience in the body to feel the body in a different way so even though it's painful it it becomes pleasurable in a certain sense

Branding - A Painful...

 and that soft voice that just deeply relaxes me. And it gives me these light, sparkling, pleasurable brain tingles. I enjoy it so much that as they click through each option, I want it to last a little bit longer.

The Brain Science (and...

 and even if they don't, this is money that we could spend in far more pleasurable ways, right? At least I can. But selling peace of mind is a problem for the insurance companies as well.

The Counterintuitive...

 Marc Well, hello everyone. I... it's a delight for me to be here and to see all of you here. Ah, and I think this is going to be a very interesting and, uh, pleasurable evening.

Mars Up Close, Part 1:...

 is that well-being is not just a mere pleasurable sensation. It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment.