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• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  W. C. Fields

  Trying, Rest Of Your Life, Comedy

  W.C. Fields (2016). “Fields for President”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like

  Deepak Chopra

  People

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• The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.

  Jean Reno

  Way, Honest, Best Way

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• Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

  Ina Garten

  People, Cooking, Feels

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• Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

  Tom Brady

  Girl, Motivation, Trying

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• If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

  Boonaa Mohammed

  People, World, Blind

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• Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspire, Cease

  "Iconic Fashion Designer von Furstenberg Says Women Never Cease to Impress and Amaze Her" by Laura Zaccaro and Suzan Clarke, abcnews.go.com. February 10, 2010.

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• It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

  Maria Sharapova

  Friends, Party, Good Friend

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• The same facts impress us differently.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Facts

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.593, Cambridge University Press

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• The need to impress others causes half the world's woes.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Half, World

  "Esoteric Mind Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1973.

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• The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Wise, Spiritual

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• Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!

  T. D. Jakes

  Worship, Presence Of God

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• Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Men, Speak, Ifs

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

  Derren Brown

  Mean, Desire, Quality

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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• Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

  Henry Rollins

  Journey, Men, Thinking

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• Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

  Thucydides

  Patience, Men, Politics

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.2245, Delphi Classics

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• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

  Scott Adams

  Car, Hot, Way

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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

  Aristotle

  Iron, Gold, Pieces

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1482, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Trying, Guilt

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.13, Multnomah

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• Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

  Claude Debussy

  Philosophy, Medicine, Effort

  "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.

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• Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Skills, Achievement

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• jewels have played a colorful part in the evolution of world affairs. Because precious stones tend to inspire both admiration and greed, leaders have found convenient excuses for seeking them and have used them to impress crowds, reward friends, deprive foes, forge alliances, and justify war. Jewels may find their highest expression in the decorative arts, but they have also earned a place in the art of the possible.

  Madeleine Albright

  Art, War, Expression

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• I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Men, Risk

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