#pleasing

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. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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

— Jimmy Buffett

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I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

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Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. ↗

— Virgil

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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