Impress Quotes - Page 5

• I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Impact, People

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• To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn't, don't.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Guy, Want, Talk To Me

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• Anybody can be Prince Charming one day a year, with the dinner and the flowers and all that. But you know what impresses me? When a guy can do that NO days a year.

  Ryan Howard

  Flower, Pda, Years

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• Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Character, Church, Calvinism

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

  Sepp Blatter

  Sports, Football, Thinking

  "Sepp Blatter admits Qatar World Cup error and backs winter switch" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Tryon Edwards

  Children, Book, Hands

  Tryon Edwards (1866). “World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and Poetry”, p.236

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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wisdom, Nature, Travel

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• I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Work, Men, Lazy Man

  Jimmy Cannon (1956). “Who struck John?”

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• Novelties please less than they impress.

  Charles Dickens

  Novelty, Please

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• What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Honesty, Lying

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• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

  Georg Solti

  Life Lesson, Hard Work, Discipline

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Strength, Baseball, Sexy

  "Suzuki on a First-Name Basis With Records" by Brad Lefton, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2009.

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• O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Giving, Movement, Regulation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 438, 1895.

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• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Trying, Attention

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin

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• Whatever impresses you attracts you. Whatever you pursue becomes your purpose.

  Tommy Tenney

  Purpose, Pursue

  Tommy Tenney (2004). “Finding Favor With the King: Preparing For Your Moment in His Presence”, p.24, Baker Books

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• We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

  George Harrison

  Trying, Way, Satisfied

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• I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the Muhammadans. Surely they cannot be much longer hidden. Injustice founded on religious rancour and national conceit cannot be perpetuated forever. The Arab has left his intellectual impress on Europe. He has indelibly written it on the heavens as any one may see who reads the names of the stars on a common celestial globe.

  John William Draper

  Religious, Stars, Sight

  "A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe". Book by John William Draper, Harper & brothers, p. 356, 1863.

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• As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Hurt, Desire

  "Awareness: The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 96, June 1, 1990.

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• There’s no card, business card, better than a compact disc for a composer. It doesn’t half impress people and they get a long way on it ... these composers they will get more performances, more commissions, more recognition just by having that disc

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Long, People, Cards

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• What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

  Robert Wagner

  Guy, Arriving, Actors

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• You know, what God uses to impress a pagan world is really the quality of life, the standard of living that we have. Because when all is said and done – now that you have become a Christian, how much better is your life as compared to those outside the four walls of the church? And I love what Dr Phil is trying to bring throughout the whole movement and to all his friends around the world, that our job is to give all our members the ‘best life now’. Yeah! Amen?

  Kong Hee

  Christian, Jobs, Wall

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• To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

  DJ Quik

  Thinking, Games, People

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.170

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• Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Clothes, People, Trying

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

  Heather Morris

  Sports, Art, Dancing

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

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