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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like. -- Will Rogers
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. -- W. C. Fields
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.' -- Florence Scovel Shinn
I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad. -- Corazon Aquino
Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me! -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky: R: Ravishing, I: Impress, C: Courageous or Careless, K: for the Kangols which I've got, That I wear everyday and Y: Why not? -- Slick Rick
I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that. -- Meredith Vieira
Learn to express, not impress. -- Jim Rohn
Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself! -- Bella Thorne
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. -- Marie de France
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. -- Vernon Howard
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are. -- Denis Waitley
It is more important to influence people than to impress them. -- Adrian Rogers
I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style. -- Lindsey Wixson
If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress? -- Boonaa Mohammed
Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. -- Bryan Batt
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. -- David Ogilvy
Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do. -- Chris Rock
We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like. -- Dave Ramsey
I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others. -- Bethany Mota
Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself. -- Selena Gomez
As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like. -- Brad Paisley
It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like. -- Adrian Rogers
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. -- Richard Bach
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all. -- Daniel Craig
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. -- Orson Welles
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. -- Claude Debussy
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. -- Anais Nin
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. -- Marie Curie
If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do. -- Joyce Meyer
What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress? -- Boonaa Mohammed
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content. -- Maria Sharapova
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. -- Orison Swett Marden
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. -- Henry Rollins
It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you. -- Mike Davidson
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. -- Dale Carnegie
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. -- Scott Adams
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. -- Aristotle
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace. -- Brennan Manning
I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do. -- Alton Brown
Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play. -- Jaromir Jagr
It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it. -- John Cusack
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman. -- Stephen Moyer
I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself? -- Jay-Z
I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save time in the morning and then get up and go to school... it didn't matter because I didn't have to impress anyone, and I didn't have to look cute in class. -- Stacey Farber
I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures. -- John C. Maxwell
I undress to impress - Patch -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The same facts impress us differently. -- Thomas Jefferson
Novelties please less than they impress. -- Charles Dickens
Today, writers want to impress other writers. -- Paulo Coelho
Live like your always trying to impress someone -- Shawn Mendes
it is always difficult to impress the ignorant. -- Lionel Shriver
It's not a performance to impress the Puritans -- Martin Tyler
Women never cease to impress and inspire me. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Women love to impress and be their best. -- Martin Lawrence
Who would you impress if the world was blind? -- Shannon L. Alder
I don't want to impress, I want to inspire. -- Keith Urban
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. -- Orson Welles
A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me. -- Harry Styles
When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us. -- Eric Thomas
In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress. -- Rod Stewart
In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls. -- Theophilus London
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. -- Randy Pausch
Once you start impressing yourself you will impress the world. -- Casey King
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you. -- Randy Pausch
Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves. -- Lysa TerKeurst
If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform. -- W. A. H. Rushton
I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. -- Ray Toro
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure. -- Nigella Lawson
I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people. -- Raine Maida
Don't use social media to impress people; use it to impact people. -- Dave Willis
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. -- Confucius
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it. -- Shia LaBeouf
A dreamgirl, on the other hand, won't kill herself to impress anyone. -- Sherry Argov
Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress. -- Fred Brooks
Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way. -- Malcolm Forbes
You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody. -- Joyce Meyer
Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her. -- Lyle Lovett
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl. -- Tom Brady
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge. -- Jim Rohn
Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like. -- Suze Orman
I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you. -- Ehud Barak
You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls. -- Bruce Ellis
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. -- John Mayer
Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. -- Richard Branson
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Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time. -- M. Shadows
Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more. -- Napoleon Hill
I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am. -- Tim Duncan
The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try. -- Joni Mitchell
Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like -- Deepak Chopra
I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy. -- Lauren Alaina
The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment. -- Robert Ringer
So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me. -- Shania Twain
Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life. -- Richard J. Foster
We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses. -- Craig Groeschel
Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this -- Haidji
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people. -- R. A. Salvatore
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. -- James Randolph Adams
I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days. -- Jeff Kinney
If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time. -- Steve Pavlina
Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you! -- T. D. Jakes
The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can. -- Jean Reno
I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard. -- Uri Geller
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. -- Scott Adams
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine. -- Alex Steffen
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Reproduction: Distinguished leaders impress, inspire and invest in other leaders. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken. -- Eden Phillpotts
Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. -- Mignon McLaughlin
It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures. -- John C. Maxwell
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out oneâ??s least impressive qualities. -- Derren Brown
I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least. -- Vince Gill
People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like. -- Clive Hamilton
With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love. -- Donald Miller

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