#pleas

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

Talent is being able to please people. ↗

— Marty Robbins

#being #people #please #talent

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#against #bed #catalogue #description #fine

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#being #better #feel #good #guests

I want to please every woman, every time. ↗

— Stuart Rose

#every time #i #please #time #want

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#true-to-self #truth #business

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#away #dim #enjoy #grow #live

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#doing #feel #filmmakers #find #had

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing