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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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

    Book   Essence   Stories  
  • 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.

    Writing   Giving   Secret  
    O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books
  • 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?

    Stupid   Ideas   Admire  
    Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, Belknap Press
  • You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.

    Running   Fall   Risk  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • 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.

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

    Writing   Giving   Secret  
  • 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 (1978). “A point of view”, Wesleyan
  • 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.

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

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

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

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

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

  • 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.

    People   Trying   World  
  • 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.

    Men   Important   Nervous  
  • 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.

    "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.
  • Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

    Writing   Firsts   Duty  
  • 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.

    Fall   Worthy   Please  
    Anne Bronte (2017). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.51, Litres
  • You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

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

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

    Art   Pleasure   Please  
    Source: www.djbooth.net
  • If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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