#pleasing

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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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. ↗

— Terrence Howard

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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. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#always #come #done #fellow #how

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Charles Townshend

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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. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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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. ↗

— James Nasmyth

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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. ↗

— Richard Branson

#being #business #essentials #focusing #ideas

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. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. ↗

— John Updike

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