#pleasing

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

#fruition #happy #hours #more #pass

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

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

— Tim Cook

#going #pleasing #probably #refrigerator #things

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

— Will Cuppy

#instantly #lion #lose #people #pleasing

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

— Ellis Peters

#conferred #engaging #even #gratification #having

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

— Robert Rodriguez

#core #i #i think #just #likes

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

— Samuel Johnson

#himself #i #i do #makes #man

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. ↗

— John Sexton

#advanced age #age #amazing #behind #camera

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

— Marianne Moore

#almost #any #himself #honest #others

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. ↗

— Steve Martin

#disneyland #enjoyed #father #go #go home