For so many years of my career, I was The Big Show. So in the back of my mind – whether it was ‘fat’ or aesthetically not pleasing or whatever crap people want to sling around – I enjoyed being The Big Show. I enjoyed being 450 pounds.
I tell women to stop learning how to keep a man and make him happy, and to try figuring out what they want from a relationship, to trust their own instincts and not worry about pleasing someone else.
As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it’s not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It’s the object of our faith – Christ’s life, death, and resurrection – that saves us.
I tried playing for the public, and I selected music that I thought would be pleasing to them. Times are different now. Today, I play the music I want, and I just try to do my best.
I try to keep my closet organized by color and category so that it’s not only aesthetically pleasing but practical as well – it really makes getting ready so much easier.
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Finding your way doesn’t mean surviving, just as pleasing an audience doesn’t mean twisting your editorial around search engine optimization and Facebook algorithms.
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.
I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.
Rihanna’s voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
The thing about doing concerts is that it’s doing a live show. It’s on my schedule. It’s songs I want to sing. It’s saying what I want to say. It’s working with the people I want to work with. I don’t have to worry about pleasing other people – I can do what I want, and people come along and go for the ride.
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