Pleasing Quotes

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

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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.

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.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

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.

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

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.

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

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'.

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

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.

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

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

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?

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I cannot go to the Opera, because I have forsworn all expense which does not end in pleasing me.

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

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

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.