Pleasing Others Quotes

When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It's a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you.

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

It's impossible to please everybody all of the time, but you just have to believe that you're making decisions for the right reasons.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

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.

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'