To try to please people is an ...

To try to please people is an endless chasing of one\'s own tail. That\'s not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.
To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.
 Wayne Coyne

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
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A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
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We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
 John Shelby Spong
I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself.
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I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.
 Wayne Coyne
I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.
 Wayne Coyne
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
 Wayne Coyne
I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.
 Wayne Coyne
There's a cave, we go inside of ourselves because we want to know more, and we turn this one corner and we go, Oh my god - I didn't know that was in here. We can never go back to the way we were. It's like a horrible car accident - you're never the same after that. It's something that you'll think about every day for the rest of your life.
 Wayne Coyne