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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. -- Saadi
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -- Henrik Ibsen
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. -- Dalai Lama
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. -- Horace
You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again. -- Mia Hamm
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. -- George Boole
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before. -- Willem Dafoe
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols. -- Brad Pitt
Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression. -- Joseph C. Aldrich
Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves. -- John Ashbery
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . -- Ansel Adams
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you. -- Epictetus
With me it's always about first impressions. -- Billy Zane
I just don't give off a great first impression. -- Mike Birbiglia
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. -- Will Rogers
Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. -- Jeb Bush
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. -- Nelson Mandela
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. -- Colleen Atwood
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing. -- Natalie Massenet
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent. -- Rita Ora
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. -- Katharine Hepburn
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them. -- Kristen Stewart
Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers? -- Jack Handey
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. -- Hermann Broch
You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong. -- Michael Frayn
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me. -- Lana Del Rey
You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled. -- Diablo Cody
I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am. -- Cecily Strong
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go. -- Andy Garcia
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia. -- Tadashi Yanai
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me. -- Alan Alda
Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are. -- Colleen Atwood
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. -- Dale Carnegie
I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere. -- Isco
I'm not a phony-friendly guy and I'm usually very quiet and not a big laugher, so some people might take that for rudeness and being mean. If anyone ever got that impression, I apologize. I love all my fans and really appreciate all their support! -- Jesse McCartney
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression. -- Billy Zane
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept. -- Daniel Kahneman
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. -- Nicholas Sparks
Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. -- Bayard Taylor
I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the days, I stayed alone with the maid. I only had my father's books with me. They were fantasy books about ghosts, and also books by Edgar Allen Poe that made a forever impression on me. -- Dario Argento
If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. -- Jack Handey
It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do. -- Michael Jordan
I will leave an impression. -- Puff Daddy
The extreme always makes an impression. -- Jeff Hardy
I like to make an impression. -- Johnny Damon
A good impression is lost so quickly... -- Claude Monet
A good first impression can work wonders -- J. K. Rowling
A picture is the expression of an impression -- Ernst Haas
The extreme always seems to make an impression. -- Christian Slater
She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. -- Thomas Hardy
Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression. -- Cynthia Ozick
Never lose the first impression which has moved you. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
You want to make an impression. Being clever helps. -- Leonard Maltin
Anything with your name should leave a lasting impression! -- Marcia Brown
Getting the Oscar had the biggest impression on me. -- Herbie Hancock
You know who makes a great first impression? Liars. -- Daniel Tosh
Bill Hader does a really good impression of me. -- Fred Armisen
Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression. -- Pharrell Williams
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift. -- Rory Bremner
Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. -- Marcus Aurelius
He did a very good impression of a stone column. -- Shannon Hale
...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday. -- Marlene Dietrich
Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. -- Andrew Solomon
There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A color is as strong as the impression it creates. -- Ivan Albright
To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness. -- Jerome Frank
My impression is that the people who say most understand least. -- Sylvia Thompson
It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression. -- Cary Grant
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not. -- Alastair Wood
Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression. -- Robert Cheeke
Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West. -- Billy Joel
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression. -- Tao Lin
Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them. -- Neal Shusterman
Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience. -- Mary C. Neal
Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot. -- Maria V. Snyder
I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world. -- Taylor Momsen
I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed. -- Stuart Pearce
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression. -- Robert Musil
A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better. -- Ted Cruz
I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true. -- Nadine Labaki
If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection -- Plato
Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks. -- Roberto Luongo
In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. -- Wanda Sykes
He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt) -- Clara Schumann
It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision. -- Bill Viola
My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression. -- Kevin McCarthy
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. -- Gaston Bachelard
Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. -- John Barnes
Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase. -- Wallace D. Wattles
People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced. -- Cheryl James
My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership. -- Gerhard Schroder
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody. -- Rita Ora
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression. -- Quintilian
Because I had an accent, people had this impression that I was dumb. -- Wilmer Valderrama
Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me. -- Lynsey Addario
I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression. -- Bill Hader
I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The first day, week and month of an employee's experience carries a lasting impression. -- Scott Weiss
The first day, week and month of an employees experience carries a lasting impression. -- Scott Weiss
Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. -- Mikhail Tal
Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things. -- Mason Cooley
People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. -- Kate Spade
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice. -- James Vincent McMorrow
No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me. -- David Ogilvy
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience -- Francis Herbert Bradley
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience. -- F. H. Bradley
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. -- Thomas Hardy
I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around. -- Christopher Walken
Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul. -- Audre Lorde
It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges. -- Emil Zatopek
People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair. -- Billy Graham
The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public. -- Nate Silver

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