#pleasing

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

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

#became #doing #feels #good #i

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

#because #become #derive #her #his

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

The art of pleasing is the art of deception. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#deception #pleasing

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

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #cares #disengaged #done #engaged

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

#bore #divined #enough #just #pleasing

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

— Marianne Moore

#almost #any #himself #honest #others