Impression Quotes - Page 33

• I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression

  Drake

  Relationship, Breakup, Second Chance

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression

  Albert Einstein

  Crush, Atheist, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Relativity: The Special and the General Theory”, p.3, Princeton University Press

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• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mom, Mother, Heart

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• My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

  Winston Churchill

  Mom, Mother, Stars

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.

  Adi Shankara

  Strong, Self, Meditation

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• My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

  William Shakespeare

  Love You, Love Is, Fire

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.55

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• Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Party, Coffee, Taken

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it is well known that he is an excellent man and revered by his people, he can only be attacked with difficulty.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.76, FastPencil Inc

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• The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, People, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

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• In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, School

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• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision, or an effluvium which assails our nose, no sooner enters our consciousness than it is drafted off in some determinate direction or other, making connection with the other materials already there, and finally producing what we call our reaction. The particular connections it strikes into are determined by our past experiences and the 'associations' of the present sort of impression with them.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Past

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.123, Nuvision Pubns

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• It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

  Lord Byron

  Memories, Light, Years

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Garden

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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Character, Hypocrite

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers

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• Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

  Roberto Luongo

  Hockey, Nhl, Goalies

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• Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

  Olga Korbut

  Recovery, New Beginnings, Gymnastics

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

  John Updike

  Flower, Giving, Natural

  John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.207, Random House

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• For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

  Alistair Cooke

  Fall, Golf, Men

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.146, Arcade Publishing

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• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Hands, Years

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Memories, Heart

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• I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

  James Martineau

  Life And Love, Heart, Grieving

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