Alan Arkin
Alan Arkin

I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps.

Alex Campbell
Alex Campbell

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Alex Scott
Alex Scott

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.

Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok

Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.

Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Allen Klein
Allen Klein

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe

The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'

Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

Chili Davis
Chili Davis

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.