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• I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

  Thomas A. Edison

  Names, Ideas, Trying

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• I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

  Erwin Rommel

  Italian, Soldier, World

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• When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

  George Washington

  Mind, President, Stories

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.227

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• It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

  Enrico Caruso

  Voice, Singing, Remember

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• When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular.

  Price Pritchett

  Struggle, Your Side, People

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• Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

  Alan Grant

  Sports, Pain, Blood

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• The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Pursuit Of Happiness, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Odds, People, Impossible

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• The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fate, Destiny

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The Collected Works”

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• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Stars, Sea, Sky

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  World, Appearance, Results

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• In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

  Malcolm X

  Country, White, Black

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• It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

  Chet Baker

  Play, People, Three

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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• No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

  David McIntyre

  Christian, Prayer, Scripture

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• That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Men, Mind

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.136

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• They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

  Louise Jameson

  Garden, Laughing, Stories

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• The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.

  Steve McVey

  Christian, Religious, Fire

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• I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

  William Temple

  Science, Done, Evolution

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• Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, America, Bipolar

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• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Men, Rude

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• I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

  Bob Dylan

  Kings, Wings

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Voice, Crafts

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• The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Past, Focused

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