Quotes About Pleasing

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

Such I was, from eight to eight-and-twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

All have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.

when it comes to the question of dependence or independence!—At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.

We knew what mums, dads, and children would understand and enjoy without resentment. I don't see the requirement to upset people. You're there to entertain and please.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must be agreeable if it kills you.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

And somehow, somewhere along the track, I went numb. I couldn't say what it was & didn't dare try. How do you explain the sense of being made to feel improper ? I withdrew into a watchful rectitude, anxious to please, risking nothing. I followed the outline of my life, carefully rehearsing form without conviction, like a bishop who can't see that his faith has become an act.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Generally, what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I think that as you survey the challenges in your lives, it's just: Which of those did you assign yourself, and which of those are you doing to please someone else? Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone in the world can add an action item. I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE,

Strength to Please

in a day spent with him, we can expect to be receiving his strength to do those things that will please him, and avoid those things that bring him pain.

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

I think the story compels its own style to a great extent that the writer don't need to bother too much about style. If he's bothering about style, then he's going to write precious emptiness–-not necessarily nonsense... it'll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won't be much content in it. ~William Faulkner~

This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch.

In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. Man, a bit later, created the fable that the dog, when he understands, always wants to please.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3