Pleasing Quotes

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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?

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

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.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.