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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
I'm passionate about pleasing people. -- Michael Mina
It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people. -- Kym Whitley
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. -- Robert Mitchum
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people. -- John Frusciante
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. -- Will Cuppy
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. -- Zadie Smith
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be. -- Paulo Coelho
We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing. -- Sarah Hall
The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale. -- Nick Harkaway
Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there. -- Teri Hatcher
I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it. -- Emilia Fox
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio. -- Ira Glass
Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes. -- Virginia Postrel
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
The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness. -- Hampton Sides
I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all. -- Michaela Watkins
People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive. -- Abiola Abrams
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people -- Marc Jacobs
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people. -- R. Kent Hughes
You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself. -- Janet Jackson
A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people. -- J. C. Ryle
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs. -- Theodore Sturgeon
A relationship based on people-pleasing is unbalanced and an unnecessary sacrifice of integrity, that will eventually break down. -- Peter Shepherd
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent -- Publilius Syrus
Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress. -- Amit Kalantri
A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence. -- Zig Ziglar
I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people. -- Erin Davie
I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. -- Margaret Atwood
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing. -- Edward Abbey
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them. -- Joshua Reynolds
What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life? -- Anne Lamott

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