Impress Quotes - Page 18

• I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

  SonReal

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I actually only went to high school for six weeks. I lost sleep deciding on what I would wear the next day or who I had to impress. I was just a much more down-to-earth, relaxed person once I decided not to care what people thought of me.

  Hope Partlow

  School, Sleep, Next Day

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• Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

  Max Kozloff

  Photography, Everyday, Behaviour

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• Kids clearly help center you because you can't impress your kids. People are like, "Oh, are they so excited because you're Ironman?" My kids couldn't care less. They like it when I hang out and play dad. I impress them by playing video games with them and doing well. Your kids humble you.

  Don Cheadle

  Dad, Humble, Kids

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• When I was younger I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

  Usain Bolt

  Country, Winning, Focus

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

  Demetri Martin

  Trying, Shows, Equations

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2012

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• I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.

  Greg Saunier

  Crush, Letting Go, Jealous

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• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  Ella Baker

  White, People, Office

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• I remember at the time, there were all these teen movies being made. It was this resurgence of John Hughes-esque teen comedies. I was sent a lot of them to audition for, and a lot of them at the time didn't really impress me. I remember I was sent one called East Grand Rapids High, which ended up becoming American Pie, and I didn't like it. Although I think I did audition for it.

  David Krumholtz

  Thinking, Pie, East

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

  Kevin Hart

  Girlfriend, Islands, Fiji

  The Many Sides of Kevin Hart's Heart" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. January 16, 2014.

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• I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy.  His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Ideas, Giving, Puppy

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• Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

  Johnny Carson

  People, House, Democracy

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• I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

  Martin Luther

  Scripture, Students, Hell

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Thinking, Nashville

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• I crave the sweet surrender of sleep and my dreams' uncensored communication: no tiresome small talk, sucking up to impress, or tiptoeing around charged topics. Dreams are the naked truth; get ready for it.

  Judith Orloff

  Dream, Sweet, Communication

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• Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

  Bella Thorne

  Being Yourself, People, Trying

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

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• I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

  Kate Upton

  Girl, Fall, People

  "Tempting Kate" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself.

  Neville Goddard

  Sleep, Men, Creative

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

  Phil Donahue

  Boys, Two, Parent

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Waste, Action

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.57, Penguin

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• All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.

  Peter Croft

  Girl, Climbing, People

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• The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ego, Needs, Moments

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 04, 2014

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• I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Please Me, Inspire, Delight

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.18, A&C Black

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• I'm in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can't impress them with a beach.

  Rose Byrne

  Beach, Cities, Australian

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

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• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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