Impression Quotes - Page 35

• A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Party, Pieces, Firsts

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

  Sara Zarr

  Christian, Writing, Fiction

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• One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

  Sara Zarr

  Nice, Book, Reading

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• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  Wanda Sykes

  Awful, Used, Brown

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2004.

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• A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form in which he develops his matter — that is to say, what he has thought about it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Book, Matter

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

  Camille Pissarro

  First Impression, Firsts, Principles

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• People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

  Michael Bassey

  Long, People, Lasting Impressions

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• A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.

  Martine Franck

  Photography, Lying, Fleeting

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• I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Hands, Self, Guy

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• You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected.

  Jordan Peele

  Track, President, Helping

  "The stars of Key & Peele talk about staying relevant, and funny, in season 2". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2012.

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• If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

  Aulis Sallinen

  Issues, Doe, Regard

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• The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Persuasion, States

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.95

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• It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

  Robert Hamer

  Years, People, Classic

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• I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

  Nadine Labaki

  Happenings

  "'Where Do We Go Now?'Asks Nadine Labaki" by Nana Asfour, www.newyorker.com. March 25, 2012.

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• The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

  Mian Muhammad Mansha

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Real, Silence, Applause

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Collaboration and celebration (and gratitude) create impressions of success in your subconscious, so that you may create future experiences in which you feel celebrated and grateful.

  Loral Langemeier

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

  Mary C. Neal

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.216, WaterBrook

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• If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Meditation, Clearing

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• Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• Two erroneous impressions ... seem to be current among certain groups of uninformed persons. The first is that religion today stands for mediaeval theology; the second that science is materialistic and irreligious.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Science, Errors, Two

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• I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Giving, Mysterious, Cold

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Simplicity, Mind

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• The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Animal, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.21, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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