Pleasing Quotes

Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

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.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

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.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.