Please Me Quotes - Page 4

• I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Goes On, Lasts, Firsts

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• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  Bette Midler

  Thinking, Singing, Get Better

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• What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, True Or False, Deceit

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.58

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• I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Wish, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.40

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• The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

  George Harrison

  Kids, Past, Views

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• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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• Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.

  Marshall Field

  Hurt, Errors, Support

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• I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

  Greg Reid

  Investing, Attempting, Precious Time

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• I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.

  Ishmael Beah

  Moon, Childhood, Saws

  Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Don't go changing, to try and please me
  You never let me down before.

  Billy Joel

  Friendship, Song, Trying

  Song: Just the Way You Are, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• ...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.

  Donald Knuth

  Educational, Learning, Hands

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• I've never done anything for the common consensus. I do things to please me. If you are happy with something yourself, you become bulletproof.

  Ricky Gervais

  Done, Common, Bulletproof

  Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Talking

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• Nothing would please me more, but who else would pump the oil that we need? God damn America.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Oil, America, Needs

  "MIDDLE EAST: The Arab World: Oil, Power, Violence". content.time.com. April 2, 1973.

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• I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

  Jonah Hill

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  "Jonah Hill Talks ‘The Sitter,’ Weight Loss And Disgust With Kardashians". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I WannaHold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits.

  Dennis Wilson

  Attitude, Past, Hands

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• I work when I feel like I can do something that pleases me, that I think I can give a little more than I've given up to yesterday.

  Sophia Loren

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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