Sentences with phrase «gain much pleasure»

I have bought a number of your miniature paintings, and gain much pleasure from them.

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As humans, we're wired in a way that avoiding pain is much more important to our survival than gaining pleasure is (most of the time, anyways!).

In fact, there wasn't much to be gained from it unless you liked giving people the pleasure of watching a good game on Sundays and enjoyed the idea that your town might come to be known all across America for its marvelous baseball team.

It was a slippery win, no doubt and much pleasure can be gained from this.

In the pre-election period the Maude agenda to radically reshape Whitehall promised much - but it has taken almost half this Parliament to gain traction with its basic idea - that elected politicians should be running the show and civil servants are there to work at the pleasure of the administration they «serve»

Unfortunately, as much as there is to be gained by traveling, it's also one of life's more expensive pleasures.

And other than a few moments of mild pleasure gained from writing your super clever and snarky response, there's absolutely nothing to be gained from being nasty with anyone, much less people who can directly affect your book sales.

One of the key tenets of behavioral finance is loss aversion theory — the idea that investors feel the pain of losses much more acutely than they feel the pleasure derived from gains.

The field of behavioral finance has demonstrated that the pain we derive from market losses impacts us twice as much as the pleasure we feel from market gains.

That's not enough to damn it though, and there is so much pleasure to be gained from blasting through a misty Welsh bog that you don't really care that much.

It's my pleasure to post because I have gained SO much inspiration from this site.