George Gissing Quotes

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

If you do things you like to do, then your life will be easy.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

I don't want to be in a relationship for the same reason I don't want a kid: I don't want anything in my life to be more important than me.

Conchita is a symbol of the fact that you just can live a wonderful life when you do what makes you happy.

I gotta do what make me happy.

You can be happy when you feel happy from inside, and when you have worked, you are your happiest.

I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.