#pleasing

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'. ↗

— Albert Wolff

#draw #had #his #learned #made

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. ↗

— Walter Scott

#each #fair #light #pleasing #slumbers

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

#because #deferring #doing #feel #first

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Aimee Semple McPherson

#empty #filled #first #first of all #himself

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#find #life #live #moments #part

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

— Jocelyn Murray

#true-to-self #truth #business

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#come #easily #himself #imagine #man

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good