Todd Solondz Quotes

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

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.

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

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

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.

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

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

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

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

I'm very happy alone.

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.