Please Yourself Quotes

• Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Intelligent, Praise

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• I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

  Iris Apfel

  Confidence, Fashion, Here I Am

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• You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

  Ricky Nelson

  Pleasing Everyone, Please

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• You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Trying, Messed Up, Please

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• Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

  Paul Laseau

  Firsts, Please, Ifs

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself.

  Ralph Steiner

  Photography, Creativity, Simple

  Ralph Steiner (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan

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• You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

  Noel Gallagher

  People, Realizing, Instinct

  "The Noel Gallagher Life Management System" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. November 14, 2011.

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• But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, People, Care

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.32, Penguin

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• Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stupid, Ideas, Admire

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, Belknap Press

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• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  Iris Chang

  Writing, Firsts, Duty

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• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.

  Ali Akbar Khan

  Artist, Years, Practice

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• Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

  Anne Bronte

  Fall, Worthy, Please

  Anne Bronte (2017). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.51, Litres

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• Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

  Raquel Welch

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Giving, Secret

  O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

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• None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.

  Michael Langford

  Photography, Thinking, Vacuums

  Efthimia Bilissi, Michael Langford (2013). “Langford's Advanced Photography”, p.396, CRC Press

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• You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

  Mark Lanegan

  Running, Fall, Risk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so again I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

  Greg Dulli

  People, Judging, Pleasure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

  Doris Lessing

  Writing, Important, Care

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

  Harlan Ellison

  Jobs, Writing, Please

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• Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Voice, Singing, Might

  "Portrait of the artist: Andrea Bocelli, tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

  Cise Star

  Art, Pleasure, Please

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

  Janet Jackson

  Pleasing Others, People, Worry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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