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• I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

  Lena Dunham

  Regret, Should Have, Laughing

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• 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.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

  Mark Goulston

  Self, Insecurity, Trying

  Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• 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.

  Vanna Bonta

  Vocabulary, Needs, World

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• This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.

  Benjamin Zander

  Jobs, People, Important

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• 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

  Government, Mind, Structure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

  Frank W. Boreham

  Church, World, Animated

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• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Fairy Tale

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• Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Evoke

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• I think there are certain people that you'll always want to impress no matter how much success you have.

  Amy Adams

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kids, People, Childhood

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  George Washington

  Men, Order, Mind

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Moving, Games, People

  Press conference, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• If you accentuate yourself, thinking or acting like you are important, then you must want to look good to someone in this world. In order to impress or sway anybody in this world, you have to be in this world yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Order

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• As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.

  David Nail

  Opportunity, Thinking, Artist

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• I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

  Raine Maida

  Views, People, Trying

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• Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

  Lyle Lovett

  Honesty, Men, Causes

  Song: Sonja, Album: I Love Everybody

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• The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Might

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.379

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• I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"

  Dev Hynes

  Fall, People, Traps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

  Sam Storms

  Spiritual, Religious, Hypocrite

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• The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

  Joni Mitchell

  Trying, Quality

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• I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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