Please Yourself Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower.…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write…
— Harlan Ellison
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Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for creativity; be intensely yourself. Don't try to be outstanding; don't try to be a success;don't…
— Ralph Steiner
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
— Doris Lessing
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
— Iris Chang
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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after…
— Ali Akbar Khan
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Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts…
— Raquel Welch
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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 please yourself ultimately…
— Noel Gallagher
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You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.
— Ricky Nelson
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Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
— Benjamin Franklin
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But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.
— Ayn Rand
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Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's…
— Anne Bronte
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Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
— O. Henry
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
— Harlan Ellison
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I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
— Iris Apfel
Who Wrote These Please Yourself Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Please Yourself Quotes as follows: