Trying To Please Everyone Quotes

• You can't go through life trying to please everyone.

  Jacob Vargas

  Trying, Please

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pride, People, Fake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

  Olivia Munn

  Trying, Insult, Ends

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Trying, Please

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Lady Knight: Book 4 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.167, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.

  David Letterman

  Nbc, Interesting, Trying

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• You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Trying, Messed Up, Please

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• Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

  Richard Armitage

  Children, Trying, Adults

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