Fun
Overview
 
Fun is the enjoyment of pleasure
Pleasure
Pleasure describes the broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria...

 and, according to Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga , was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.-Life:Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-Germanic languages, earning his...

, "an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody at a glance right down to the animal level." Fun may be encountered in many human activities during work, social functions, recreation
Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. The "need to do something for recreation" is an essential element of human biology and psychology. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure and are considered to be "fun"...

 and play, and even seemingly mundane activities of daily living. The distinction between enjoyment and fun is difficult to articulate but real, fun being a more spontaneous, playful, or active event.
Quotations

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Leo Burnett, in Communications of an Advertising Man : Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett (1961)

Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

Leo Burnett, in Communications of an Advertising Man : Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett (1961)

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Eileen Caddy|Eileen Caddy, quoted in Life Interrupted : The Scoop on Being a Young Mom‎ (2004) by Tricia Goyer

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie, quoted in Permission to Play : Taking Time to Renew Your Smile (2003) by Jill Murphy Long, p. 69

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, as quoted in Animated Architecture (1982) by Derek Walker, p. 10

Don't ever become a pessimist ... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love|Time Enough for Love (1973)

If it's not fun, you're not doing it right.

Fran Tarkenton|Fran Tarkenton, as quoted in The Story of You : And How to Create a New One (2006) by Steve Chandler

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

James Thurber, in an interview with Edward R. Murrow on the television show Small World, CBS-TV (25 March 1959)

 
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