Pleasing People Quotes

• Oh, my God. What if you wake up some day, and you're 65 or 75, and you never got your novel or memoir written; or you didn't go swimming in warm pools or oceans because your thighs were jiggly or you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.

  Anne Lamott

  Nice, Ocean, Kids

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• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Humorous, People, Profound

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.85, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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• What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?

  Anne Lamott

  People, Creative, What If

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• I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

  John Frusciante

  Expectations, People, Not Interested

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• We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Needs, Waste

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

  Emilia Fox

  People, Want, Faces

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• How can you worry about pleasing people [critics] and what they're going to think? How can you do anything creative if the whole thing is motivated by trying to please somebody else? To me, the whole idea of what I thought art, or music, or anything creative was about pleasing yourself and hoping that whatever you're creating will reach someone else who'll see it on that level. To worry about someone picking it apart and discussing it element for element, and trying to knock you down or weaken it in any way doesn't amount to anything but a waste of paper.

  Elliot Easton

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• I didn't know enough as a writer to understand why I needed to do this, but I understood in a very gut way that I could not entertain those thoughts of pleasing people and write this book - that it would be a very different book. Without really sort of investigating that instinct, which I'm glad for, I just made a conscious decision to put blinders on and not think about anything and put it all in. And I did. I put everything in. I had to look at the whole picture to see what I needed.

  Melissa Febos

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm passionate about pleasing people.

  Michael Mina

  People, Passionate

  "Michael Mina's magic touch" by Stacy Finz, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2008.

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Father, Work, Home

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