Impressed Quotes - Page 23

• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Frederick Reines

  School, Technology, Encounters

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• In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.

  Charles Horace Mayo

  Cancer, Dark, Light

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• This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a passion project nurtured with love and care by Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and the entire creative team. I was thoroughly impressed by the deep faith expressed throughout this epic series.

  Craig Detweiler

  Team, Passion, Epic

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• One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

  Scott Yanow

  Writing, Eric, Helping

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• So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety.

  Patty Murray

  Track, Safety, Promise

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• As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions, you will not think it unseasonable, although I have frequently done it, to bring to your remembrance the great importance of encouraging our University, town schools, and other seminaries of education, that our children and youth while they are engaged in the pursuit of useful science, may have their minds impressed with a strong sense of the duties they owe to their God.

  Samuel

  Strong, Children, School

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• I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

  Deepak Chopra

  College, Dedication, Quality

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• Tom is the most eccentric person I have ever worked with. We get on very well and I am most impressed with how he can hold an audience in the palm of his hand.

  Louise Jameson

  Hands, Eccentric, Holding On

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

  B. J. Porter

  Cds, Comedy, Release

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

  Ian Christe

  Kids, Looks, Defining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was an ignored guy and have been for many years. But I suppose I became well-known after being ignored. After the release of the CDs and LPs, especially the LPs, people like it. I was impressed.

  Yoshi Wada

  Years, Cds, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Mother, Father, America

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

  Rick Nielsen

  Song, Bridges, Bits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.

  Alice Winocour

  War, Reality, Soldier

  "Alice Winocour’s Chaos and Order". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 10, 2016.

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• So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

  Luke Watson

  Wish, Lions, Brilliant

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• But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Heart, Athlete, Ucla

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• Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Men, Mind, Details

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.3, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I mean ... to let you know how deeply I am impressed with a sense of the importance of Amendments; that the good people may clearly see the distinction - for there is a distinction - between the federal powers vested in Congress and the sovereign authority belonging to the several States, which is the Palladium [the protection] of the private and personal rights of the citizens.

  Samuel

  Mean, Rights, People

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• The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his life but he’s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is Höwedes.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Cups, Firsts

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• There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. Some of them are not known even in their own countries, but when you come across them you are very impressed. Those are heroes or heroines we must never forget. Because of their service to society, you can't really help but admire them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Hero, Men

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

  Lance Burton

  Thinking, Clarity, Regal

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• In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.

  Michael Koryta

  Running, Character, Long

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Concerned, Can Do

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