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• Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

  Walter Slezak

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Buying Things

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Aug 25, 2010

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• No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

  George Boole

  Beautiful, Giving, May

  "Comic sections: the book of mathematical jokes, humour, and wisdom". Book by Des MacHale, p. 107, 1993.

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• To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Earnest

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• It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

  Adrian Rogers

  Buying Things, People, Needs

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• You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Done, Affirmation

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2010). “The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

  Warren Zevon

  Thinking, Safe, Figures

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• The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.

  John Amos Comenius

  Teaching, Learning, Giving

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• I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person.

  Snoop Dogg

  Men, Views, Concerned

  Interview with Ashahed M. Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. August 13, 2010.

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• It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Easy, Hours

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• We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't have, for gratifications that don't last, killing animals we don't hate, for pleasures that don't satisfy, dreaming of a life we don't deserve, and praying for an afterlife that doesn't exist, we are a stupid species

  Philip Wollen

  Life, Trust, Dream

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• Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

  Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet

  Spiritual, Flower, Divinity

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• The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.

  Heber J. Grant

  Work, Zion, Giving

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• In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

  Confucius

  Men, Sake, Study

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• Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

  Fred Brooks

  Ifs

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• I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

  Meredith Vieira

  Being Yourself, Hard Work, People

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

  Eugene Habecker

  Leadership, Pay The Price, People

  Eugene B. Habecker (1987). “The Other Side of Leadership”, Scripture PressPublications

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• Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

  Charles Darwin

  Intelligent, Men, Feelings

  Charles Darwin (1887). “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

  Randy Pausch

  Trying, Hips, Surface

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• A lot of people play to impress, but the really gifted ones play to move. That's the greatest point of ever doing this.

  Vince Gill

  Moving, Play, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I’m an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Distance, Eye, Vampire

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• To be honest I had learnt martial arts for a girl. So I started learning the art to impress her, but eventually I started loving martial art more than the girl. So later it became a habit it became fun.

  Akshay Kumar

  Girl, Art, Fun

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• No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.

  Michael Horton

  Heart, Law, Profound

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.130, Baker Books

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• In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Worth, Car, People

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• The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Kings, Men, Righteous Man

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 104), 1895.

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