Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“… ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself Ricky Nelson (Referring to creative works, not other things)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!'… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Don't try to please people you'll fail, But you can piss them off and please yourself! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“I think I will sit on it a little while longer," said the duck, "as I have sat so long already, a… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your… — Michael Langford Copy Share Image
You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please… — Ali Akbar Khan Copy Share Image
I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing… — Dev Hynes Copy Share Image
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself:… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
“Xas put his face close to Sobran's and said, soft and succinct, "Listen, and take this in. The terms of the pact… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Ah! you are come, are you, Edgar Linton?' she said, with angry animation. 'You are one of those things that are ever… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“He liked to join in any game that was afoot, so long as it was simple, such as dominoes or draughts, but… — Molly Hughes Copy Share Image
Pagod ka na ba sa Work? Sa School? Sa Relationship niyo? Magpahinga ka. Buhay mo naman yan eh. Ikaw ang magde-decide kung… — Lheng Aguilar Copy Share Image
“I deas about the ‘self ’ conflict with each other and cannot be slain – their very resistance is what gives them… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others. — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of… — Greg Dulli Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If… — Steve Hayden Copy Share Image
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was… — Robert Polidori Copy Share Image
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image