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• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

  Brian Johnson

  Thinking, Ideas, Crowds

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• And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

  F. L. Lucas

  Writing, People, Clarity

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.54, Harriman House Limited

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• Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.

  Dick Dale

  People, Musician, World

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• I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.

  Ray Toro

  Girl, Spinning Around, Chairs

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• Power always impresses the young and foolish.

  Darren Shan

  Foolish, Young

  Darren Shan (2014). “The Saga of Larten Crepsley 1-4 (Birth of a Killer; Ocean of Blood; Palace of the Damned; Brothers to the Death) (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

  George Orwell

  Men, White Man, Tyrants

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• Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

  Robert Ringer

  Fashion, Desire, Form

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.189, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Fall, Careers

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• it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

  Lionel Shriver

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Difficult

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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• Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Men, Water

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.

  Neil Simon

  Beautiful, Sexy, Intelligent

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• What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

  Nancy Mitford

  Life, Children, Nice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

  Orson Welles

  Girlfriend, Order, Civilization

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

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• Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, May, Matter

  Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.

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• To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No farfetched or obscure statement will stop them. You have got to hit them where they live in the heart or in the head. You have got to catch their eyes or ears with something simple, something direct, something they want.

  John Caples

  Eye, Heart, Simple

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• I was in the drama club, and I was one of seven co-presidents of the student body. Students elected me; I dont know why! There were only 330 kids in my high school, though, so it wasnt a lot of kids to impress or reign over.

  Nicholas Braun

  Drama, School, Kids

  "Seventeen Chats with Nicholas Braun!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 10, 2009.

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• If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Wise, Religious, Simplicity

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• I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Art, Research, Want

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• I had no money. I had no savings account.So I would bring down my color TV set, a Sears TV with a cable snaked into it - they had no video-in back in those days - and hooked it up to the circuit of very few chips and then a little keyboard you could type on. And I was trying to impress people with how did he do it with fewer chips than anyone could ever imagine?

  Steve Wozniak

  Color, People, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

  Marcella Hazan

  Art, Home, Accomplishment

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• I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

  Lady Gaga

  Who I Am, Dresses, Way

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• I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

  Uri Geller

  Found, Performers

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