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  • The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.

  • Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

    Inspire   Impress   Cease  
    "Iconic Fashion Designer von Furstenberg Says Women Never Cease to Impress and Amaze Her" by Laura Zaccaro and Suzan Clarke, abcnews.go.com. February 10, 2010.
  • Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

    Trying   Hips   Surface  
    Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
  • When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
  • As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

    Asking   Wow   Filmmaker  
    Source: collider.com
  • Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

    Bridges   Oil   Next  
  • You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

    Distance   Epic   Impact  
  • Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

  • Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself.

  • I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.

    Love   Life   Letting Go  
  • Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made this wonderful distinction between lying, which he said there was something wrong with if you were trying to extract an advantage for yourself or evade responsibility for some nasty thing you'd done. But if all you're really trying to do is impress or keep it young or make life more vivid and interesting, go for it! There's no real harm in doing something like that. I think people can be overly saddled to the truth.

    Real   Liars   Lying  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive; that they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up.

    Beautiful   Men   Mind  
    "Facing History" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.
  • It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

  • I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.

    Art   Writing   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

    Uncles   People   Leader  
  • Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.

    Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.28, Penguin
  • I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.

    Boys   Guitar   Effort  
    "Love Lessons From Ellie Goulding". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. October 9, 2012.
  • Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

  • I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

    Cat   Idols   Doe  
    Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.
  • Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

    Bob   Slugs   Dylan  
  • In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

    Car   Hot   Way  
  • One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

    Book   Thinking   Trying  
  • The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

  • When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

    Fire   Trying   Would Be  
  • Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

    Children   Book   Hands  
    Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236
  • If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

    People   World   Blind  
  • 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.

    Journey   Men   Thinking  
  • Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

    Impress   Ifs  
  • Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

    Way   Poverty   Wealth  
  • The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.

    Order   People   Needs  
    "The Great Disruption". "In Our Time", BBC Radio 4, www.bbc.co.uk. June 17, 1999.
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