Impress Quotes - Page 9

• Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

  Danny Boyle

  Two, Creating, Actors

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• Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.

  David B. Haight

  Soul, Littles, Ends

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• I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, Awards

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• Every intellectual has a very special responsibility. He has the privilege and the opportunity of studying. In return, he owes it to his fellow men (or 'to society') to represent the results of his study as simply, clearly and modestly as he can. The worst thing that intellectuals can do - the cardinal sin - is to try to set themselves up as great prophets vis-à-vis their fellow men and to impress them with puzzling philosophies. Anyone who cannot speak simply and clearly should say nothing and continue to work until he can do so.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years".

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• Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

  Katie Price

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Discipline

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hurt, Desire

  "Awareness: The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 96, June 1, 1990.

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• Novelties please less than they impress.

  Charles Dickens

  Novelty, Please

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• You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

  Bruce Ellis

  Girl, Writing, Statistics

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• Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence . . . Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

  Hugh Nibley

  Mean, Past, Illusions Of Grandeur

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable.
  Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered.
  Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

  William Stringfellow

  Talking, Giving, Listening

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fall, Past, Shadow

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.1206, Penguin

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• A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me.

  Harry Styles

  Makeup, Skirts, Short Skirts

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• A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking that evidence in bits and rejecting item by item. As all the facts come singly, anyone who dismisses them one by one is destroying the condition under which the conviction of a new truth could ever arise in the mind.

  F. C. S. Schiller

  Believe, Mind, Facts

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• I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Work, Men, Lazy Man

  Jimmy Cannon (1956). “Who struck John?”

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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wisdom, Nature, Travel

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• We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple

  Mamie Till

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson (2011). “Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America”, p.8, Random House

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• Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

  Tryon Edwards

  Children, Book, Hands

  Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

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• Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

  Dick Dale

  Play, Sound, Kind

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• Ladies, you may not realize this, understand this, or even believe this, but everything else we do is ultimately for you. Men don't do anything-create art, build businesses, donate to charity, invent things, or do anything noteworthy-for any reason other than to impress women, and thus get them to have sex with us. If women didn't exist, we'd still just be naked grunting apes living in caves. In a very real way, pussy is the key to human civilization. You don't have to like it, but it's a fact; if you understand it, you understand men.

  Tucker Max

  Art, Sex, Real

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• From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, World, Quiet

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

  Herb Ritts

  Stars, Growing Up, Fun

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• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

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• I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Sports, Football, Thinking

  "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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• If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170

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