Making People Happy Quotes - Page 2

• The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

  A. R. Rahman

  Believe, People, Creative

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• Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

  Anurag Kashyap

  People, Definitions, Entertainment

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• Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Feet, People

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• It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

  Thomas Huxley

  Things In Life, People, Unhappy

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Rocks, People

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Communication, Mean

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• I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy

  Lisa Marie Presley

  People, Selling, Not Interested

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• Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
  And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Spring, Real

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.

  Margaret Cho

  Make Others Happy, Order, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Moral, Humans

  Bertrand Russell, Louis I. Greenspan, Stefan Andersson (1999). “Russell on Religion: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.90, Psychology Press

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• I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Phones, Cells, People

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• I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That’s where my heart is, that’s all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, People, Giving

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• One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

  Dustin Moskovitz

  People, Building Things, Purpose

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• When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

  Thomas Keller

  Real, Ideas, People

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. April 20, 2018.

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• If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Thinking, People, Tree

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• I want to know where joy lives. I'd interview scientists, religious leaders and heads of state. I'd want to find out exactly what makes people happy. I'd want to look into the biology, the chemistry of the human brain.

  Goldie

  Religious, People, Joy

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• The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

  Derek Sivers

  Educational, People, Important

  Interview with Nithya Rajaram, supportbee.com. June 14, 2011.

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• The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Song, Expression, People

  "DJ Chelsea Leyland Talks Music and Fashion!". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 26, 2011.

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• I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspirational, Oysters, Voice

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• I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Kindness, Compassion, People

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.

  Kylie Kwong

  Love, People, Cooking

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• I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

  Guy Fieri

  Song, People, Singers

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• Oh no, that’s for you. Presents make people happy. The Simi wants you to be happy. (Simi) Thank you, Simi. (Gallagher) No need to thank me. See, that’s what families do. They take care of each other. (Simi) I no longer have a family. I had to give them up. (Gallagher) Of course you have a family. Everyone has family. I’m your family. Akri your family. Even that smelly old goddess is your family. She’s that creepy old aunt who comes around but nobody likes her so they make fun of her when she’s gone. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Aunt, People

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• We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

  Chris Barber

  Play, People, Happy Music

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