Best Please Yourself Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Noel Gallagher

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

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Author:Paul Laseau

“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.”

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Book:Langford's Advanced Photography

Source: Langford's Advanced Photography

“As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.”

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Author:Evangeline Lilly

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

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Author:Pierce Brosnan

“If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If you want to be a great copywriter, please your reader.”

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Author:Steve Hayden

“Women without men are usually nervous. ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.”

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Author:Sheilah Graham Westbrook

“I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.”

Ifs Writing Stories Forget Please Please Yourself

Book:Collected Stories of O. Henry

Source: Collected Stories of O. Henry

“I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.”

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Author:Dev Hynes

“I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.”

Ifs Giving Writing Stories Forget Secret Please Bliss Short Story Sole Story Writing Please Yourself

Author:O. Henry

“I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.”

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Author:Robert Polidori

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

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Author:Cise Star

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

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Author:Mark Lanegan

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

People Worry Please Pleasing Others Please Yourself

Author:Janet Jackson

“You can't please everyone. You've got to please yourself, I guess.”

Please Please Yourself

Author:Ray McKinnon

“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.”

People Individual Pleasure Judging Music Is Please Yourself

Author:Greg Dulli

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

“You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.”

Please Please Yourself Pleasing Everyone

Author:Ricky Nelson

“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.”

Ifs Wells Might Asks Voice Please Singing Showers Please Yourself

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“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.”

People Knows Life Inspirational May Self Wisdom Honor Please Respect Self Respect Respect Yourself Respect People Dignity And Respect I Respect You Please Yourself Self Respect And Dignity

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.”

Writing Ends Please Please Yourself

Author:Benjamin Franklin

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

People Inspirational Should Care Please Please Yourself

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“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.”

Ifs Fall Please Worthy Please Yourself

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“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?”

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Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“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.”

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Book:Collected Stories of O. Henry

Source: Collected Stories of O. Henry

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

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Author:Iris Apfel

“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.”

Trying Looks Simple Creativity Please Photography Photographer Outstanding Prescriptions Please Yourself

Book:A Point of View

Source: A Point of View

“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.”

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Book:Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

Source: Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

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

Writing Firsts Duty Please Please Yourself

Author:Iris Chang

“It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right.”

People Knows Leadership Respect Self Respect Respect Yourself Respect People Dignity And Respect I Respect You Please Yourself Self Respect And Dignity

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“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.”

Ifs Years May Artist Practice Audience Please Ten Performers Guru True Artists Please Yourself

Author:Ali Akbar Khan

“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.”

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Author:Raquel Welch

“You cant please all the people all the time.”

People Please Divides Cant Please Yourself

Author:Miranda Richardson

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