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• This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.

  Rene Descartes

  Memories, Judging, Perception

  Rene Descartes (1999). “Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy”, p.86, Hackett Publishing

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• To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Knowledge, Science, Perfect

  Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”

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• I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Light, Shining

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• We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Science, People, Trying

  "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.

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• Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them to hang myself." "My mother did the embroidery," Bittterblue said. Katsa clapped her mouth shut and glared at Helda. "Thank you, Helda, for mentioning that detail.

  Kristin Cashore

  Mother, Might Use, Trying

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• Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Skills, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

  Dean Koontz

  Humility, Self, Age

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.62, Bantam

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• To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.

  Steve Harvey

  Jobs, Nice, Simple

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• Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

  Joanne Harris

  Dog, Thinking, People

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• You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Angel, Teeth, Dresses

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• I undress to impress - Patch

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Patches

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• Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, Writing, People

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• With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Book, Eye

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• I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

  J. Lynn

  Worry, Done, Want

  J. Lynn (2013). “The Between the Covers New Adult 6-Book Boxed Set: Wait for You, Losing It, Taking Chances, A Little Too Far, Rule, and Foreplay”, p.127, Harper Collins

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• Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

  Carrie Fisher

  Psychology, Mind, Textbooks

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.

  Robin Sloan

  Girl, Thinking, Google

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

  Jeff Kinney

  Girl, Guy, Needs

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 7)”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Gothic, Modern

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

  Christian D. Larson

  Real, Ideas, Appreciate

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.416, Penguin

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• The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

  Ira Remsen

  Honesty, Believe, Teaching

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• To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Grace, Steps

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.610, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I made the school team, and when I won in a match against another school it was the greatest moment of my life even greater than the European titles. In those school races, I always ran my legs off. There were girls watching and I wanted to impress them. I was foaming and vomiting, but I won

  Juha Vaatainen

  Girl, Running, Team

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• Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Powerful, Buying Things

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• Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole as clearly and as vividly as you can. ... What can I gain by doing so? You should understand the problem, familiarize yourself with it, impress its purpose on your mind.

  George Polya

  Science, Understanding, Mind

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Encouragement, Flower, Adventure

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