Please Yourself Quotes

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself. ~ Harlan Ellison

You can please some of the people some of the time, others you can please once in a while and still others you can't please any of the time, but if you only strive to please yourself all of the time, you have and are a problem. ~ Belva Rae Staples

I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing." "Please yourself," said the old duck, and she went away. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself. ~ Pierce Brosnan

Xas put his face close to Sobran's and said, soft and succinct, "Listen, and take this in. The terms of the pact are this: 'Xas shall go freely. God shall have his pains and Lucifer his pleasures.' So, if you please yourself and me the way you want, Sobran, you will be pleasing the devil. And I will not give you to him. ~ Elizabeth Knox

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? ~ Gustave Flaubert

He liked to join in any game that was afoot, so long as it was simple, such as dominoes or draughts, but was so good natured that he always let his opponents win. Not that he said so, but we were always aware of it, and could see him making mistakes on purpose. To poor Arthur we owed our disgust with obtrusively unselfish people, and our understanding of mother's oft-repeated maxim: 'Please yourself, your friends will like you the better. ~ Molly Hughes

Please yourself, not others ... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. ~ Paul Laseau

Do not change yourself to please others, change yourself to please yourself. You are the person that truly matters in your life. You are the person you wake up to every morning and fall asleep to every night. Your life is for you. ~ Avina Celeste

You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. ~ Mark Lanegan

Both of you think happiness is this thing you have to chase after, like a child with a shiny toy. It won't happen until you start finding ways to take care of other people instead of ways to please yourself. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Women without men are usually nervous ... The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself. ~ Sheilah Graham Westbrook

It's like that old saying: You can't please anybody, so you might as well be alone. (Actually, I don't think that's the saying. I think it's actually, You can't please everybody, so you might as well just please yourself. Whatever. They're both exhausting.) ~ Jen Cross

Be happy,
You will never be able to please everyone out there. So be happy and live your life to please yourself. ~ P.J.Prospere

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. ~ Ayn Rand

I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself. ~ Robert Polidori

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I will never back the fuck off where you are concerned. You are my everything and will remain my everything for as long as I walk this earth." He grabbed my face and kissed me passionately then reluctantly pulled away. "Now, as much as I like to watch you please yourself, quit it. It's my fucking job to bring you undone and mine alone. ~ K.M. Golland

You do not dress to please yourself; you dress to please others. ~ Mary Roach

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds. ~ Anthony Liccione

It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. ~ Doris Lessing

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. ~ O. Henry

You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself. ~ Ricky Nelson

Please yourself, and you will go far. Please those who matter, and you will go further. But, please God, and you will go the furthest. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't try to do pictures for others to look at- just please yourself. ~ Ralph Steiner

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself. ~ Harlan Ellison

Ah! you are come, are you, Edgar Linton?' she said, with angry animation. 'You are one of those things that are ever found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never! I suppose we shall have plenty of lamentations now - I see we shall - but they can't keep me from my narrow home out yonder: my resting-place, where I'm bound before spring is over! There it is: not among the Lintons, mind, under the chapel-roof, but in the open air, with a head-stone; and you may please yourself whether you go to them or come to me! ~ Emily Bronte

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. ~ Iris Chang

You can please yourself without pleasuring yourself, but you cannot pleasure yourself without pleasing yourself. ~ Gabbo De La Parra

I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public. ~ O. Henry