Carrie Lam Quotes

Women often try too hard to say what they think a man wants to hear, to like what he likes, to laugh at every joke, and get so nervous talking about themselves that nothing interesting comes out.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Everyone now, they look back and they're like, "What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?" And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please.

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Remember that you cannot please everybody because you are likely to end up pleasing nobody.

Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

Great customer service does not come by chance. It is the result of training and ensuring there are enough assistants to serve the customers.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I think girls especially get so caught up in thinking like, 'Oh I have to be prim or proper or fun and sunshiny' when, like, you can be literally anything. You can be mannish; you can do whatever, and it's acceptable.

I don't crave acceptance in the classical world.

I think that we all desperately try to fit in to different molds: our parents, our bosses, our partners, social status, friends. We all figure out a look that we think will get us the job or make his parents approve of us or get that girl to want to go on a date, whatever. We all change ourselves to please whoever it is.

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

We must satisfy our customers.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

People ridicule you for the silliest thing, like what you wore to an event. At the end of the day, I'm just being me - if that's not good enough for you, tell me what is. Usually people don't have an answer.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.