A Quote by Confucius

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

Confucius

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Difficult Easy Inferior Man Please Serve Superior Superior Man

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.

Ashley Purdy

When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.

Dalai Lama

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Robert Brustein

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

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Sara Zarr

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

Steven Spielberg

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

Frederic Farrar

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgment.

Primo Levi

I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.

Riteish Deshmukh

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).