Believe me, I’ve had interviews where the person says, ‘So when did you start and why? What about your parents?’ I say to them, ‘Please, have you heard of the word ‘Google?’
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
You have to have a sound that inspires you to play because, if not, you won’t be able to make the sound you have work. You won’t be able to make magic with it if you’re not happy with it, so it’s important that you at least please yourself to the level where you can just relax and be an artist.
Working solo means you don’t have to account for anybody else. You do it yourself, so you’re not trying to please others as well as yourself; you’re just trying to do the best you can.
Obviously you can’t please everyone. I’m sure some people say, ‘Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.’
What I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Please, please, please – I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing – in my case, crying and dying – you are typecast.
A dog’s heart chakra is always open; their aim in life is to please.
A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
I race to win, not to please people.
The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.
You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats’ new spending doesn’t? Will someone please ask that?
A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.
I’m not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I’m not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, ‘No!’, but you can’t stop someone in the street and say, ‘Please go home and change.’
I remember just praying, ‘Dear Lord, please let me grow to be at least 6 feet.’
You don’t need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It’s all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.
Not everybody is going to understand you. You can’t please everybody. That’s just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that’s going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That’s part of life.
As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn’t until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.
I don’t try to please anybody. I try to win.
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.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
I’ll take a redrum with a rellik please.
I’ve done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, ‘Please, I used to pull the same trick. There’d be an intervention, I’d make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.’
I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
I don’t need anybody to market or promote me. If people don’t want to hear this music, then it’s not for them. You cannot please everybody.
As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that’s ideal.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
You’re never going to please 100 percent of women.
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
I got to meet Hulk Hogan. He took a liking to me because of my size. He saw that I was a good athlete and could move. He told me at the time, he says, ‘You got a big dollar sign in your forehead, kid,’ and I said, ‘Well, please show it to me, because I’m broke.’
I don’t want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?
I think one thing I’ve learned over the years is just that you’re not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.
I try to please myself. I don’t try to anticipate what people want to see.
Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.
For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.
I would dream of going up to the ‘New York Times’ and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn’t rise to those heights.
Tell the people… please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I’m suffering a lot, but I love them.
When trouble ends even troubles please.
I’m not really calculated enough or trained enough as a musician or songwriter to create a style in order to please people. Ultimately, I just have to do what I like to do.
The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.
We knew what mums, dads, and children would understand and enjoy without resentment. I don’t see the requirement to upset people. You’re there to entertain and please.
British audiences are toughest on British films. So often, a British film is the last thing they want to see. If you please them, you really know you’ve made an impact.
I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven’t been writing for nothing.
If someone doesn’t like something, it’s their prerogative not to like it. It’s not possible to please everyone. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
Enough of the ‘Canada is a modest country’ boasts. Please. Just stop.
It’s funny what actors take issue with. Some won’t do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won’t ever play anyone remotely unlikable – ‘Heroes only, please.’ Some won’t do violence. I have no such qualms.
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Please, let’s talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.
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.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please – God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
