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Letter "P" » pleasantly
«The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.»
«People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold.»
Author: Richard Thalheimer
| About:
Business
| Keywords:
exceed, expectations, passed, pleasantly, psychological, reaction, somehow, threshold, thresholds
«Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.»
Author: Robert E. Lee
| About:
Life,
World
| Keywords:
correct, do good, enable, pleasantly, regret, summoned, summoning, views, world view
«The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones»
Author: Wendell L. Willkie
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
good manners, manners, pleasantly, put up, The test
«I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
involvement, limiting, minimum, pleasantly, recommend, scant, scanted
«Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.»
Author: Kin Hubbard
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
chat, chats, irritating, overcharge, overcharged, overcharges, overcharging, pleasantly
«Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Adulthood
| Keywords:
adults, engaged, enterprises, pleasantly, queer, queerer, queerest, remind, talked
«Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
an account, hearer, misfortunes, permitted, pleasantly, shortens
«It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, creep, creep in, give in, impending, keep quiet, mentioning, pleasantly, quiets, reference, resigned, steadily
«The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.»
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