A Quote by Aesop

Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.

Aesop

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Everybody Nobody Please Seek Those

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

When I was first writing, my little prayers were, 'Please, please, please. Let something be published someday.' Then it went to, 'Please, please, please. Let somebody read this.'

Judy Blume

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

George Washington

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Brendan O'Carroll

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

Brendan O'Carroll

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

Maxime Bernier

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can't please everyone. Don't even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you're doing.

Buddy DeFranco

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

Mitch Albom

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

Anne Graham Lotz

Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.

Demian Maia

I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.