It is impossible to please all the world and also one's father.
Providing a mix of learning opportunities, from the experiential and practical to the reflective and theoretical, is vital... but I have to admit that it can be pretty hard to get the balance right, and it's pretty impossible to please everyone all of the time with any single training/learning activity.
Their feedback may be really valuable and to some extent correct, but it's impossible to please everyone, especially if the majority don't view you as difficult to begin with.
While it is impossible to please everyone, this is the best way to find new ideas and new solutions.
The Potter films were never going to live up to the books, simply because it would be impossible to please an audience for whom the series is so deeply personal.
She said it had been impossible to please all her bosses -- the board, City Hall, 2.5 million tenants, 25,000 owners -- but she felt her work allowed them to "walk away from the table each year knowing the research was fair".
It is certifiably impossible to please all people, all of the time.
The father -- remote, impossible to please, harshly judgmental and violently punishing -- is a godlike figure to the boys, and possibly to the director as well.
Telling ourselves that we are "ungrateful," "overly demanding," "impossible to please," and thus somehow to blame for the deprivation that we are experiencing, is a strategy to reject our pain and thus eradicate the anxiety that contradiction arouses.
It's impossible to please everybody, and it's hard to find the right mix of events to keep the city hopping.
