Quotes About Authenticity

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I was in school for four years writing music to please my teachers. That was not music I liked. And when I make music that isn't for something I want to make, and it's to please other people, it's - the outcome is really bad.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

It's hard to please everyone, and I learnt quite early that that's never going to happen.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.

You can't please everyone.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please everyone.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

We don't try to please everyone. Those older fans who expect something from The Roots are a tad more important to me than getting new fans.

I think 'Game Of Thrones' is incredibly true to the books. I think the fans will, hopefully, be very pleased with how true to the books we are.

We have got to be brave and bold and bring people with us, not try and look all ways. Trying to please everyone usually means we have pleased no one.

You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you're pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain't, that's just part of the game.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.