Impression Quotes - Page 3

• You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

  Meg Wolitzer

  People, Signatures, Chance

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings”, p.281, Random House

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• Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

  Thomas Couture

  Color, Knowing, Connections

  Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

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• Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression

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• Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Art, Taken, Emotion

  From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1856. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 241, 1972.

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• In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression.

  Augustus William Hare

  Individuality, Peer Pressure, Life Is

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Imagination, Style

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.309, Penguin

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• People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Sight, Clothes, People

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• It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

  Muriel Lester

  Country, Travel, Giving

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• Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

  Dale Carnegie

  Trying, World, Approval

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• He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Quality, World

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “O Grande Gatsby: The Great Gatsby: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.174, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

  Charles Darwin

  Past, Justice, Mind

  Charles Darwin, Michael T. Ghiselin (2010). “The Descent of Man”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.

  Michael Shannon

  Thinking, People, Watches

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• My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

  Jim Thome

  Dad, School, Doors

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

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• I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.

  Gillian Welch

  Song, Simple, Hiccups

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Children, Real, Teaching

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• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

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• The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Records

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• I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Stories, Sides

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• Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

  Joseph C. Aldrich

  Spiritual, Expression, Religion

  Joseph C. Aldrich (1977). “Secrets to inner beauty”

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• It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Light, Expectations, Priorities

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.91, Conari Press

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• People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

  Matt Lucas

  Skills, Voice, People

  "Matt Lucas says he can never learn to drive because he would end up killing himself". www.mirror.co.uk. July 21, 2011.

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• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Noble, Shelves

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Maturity, Reflection, Long

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