Impressionable Quotes

• Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Giving, Age

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Feb 01, 2017

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• There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Women, Memorable, Mind

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• The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Influence, Early Life

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

  Sam Kinison

  Role Models, Roles, Youth

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• In our relationship with children and young people, we are not dealing with mechanical devices that can be quickly repaired, but with living beings who are impressionable, volatile, sensitive, afraid, affectionate; and to deal with them we have to have great understanding, the strength of patience and love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Children

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• I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Strong, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

  Socrates

  Children, Accusing Me, Years

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Men, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Men, Essence

  Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of man”, p.95

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• I don't want ISIS using our Internet to take our young, impressionable youth and watching the media talking about how they're masterminds - these are masterminds. They shouldn't be using the word "mastermind."

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Media, Talking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

  Arthur Rackham

  Education, Children, Learning

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• When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

  Samantha Power

  School, Support, Causes

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• I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

  Jessa Crispin

  Self, People, Cynical

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

  Thomas Hardy

  Kings, Dramatic Life, Life Is

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• My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility.

  Margaret Cho

  Mother, Baby, Hate

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• I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Fans, Back When

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

  Matt Tong

  Hearing Things, Helping, Young

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Exercise, Feelings

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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• To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

  W.A. Mathieu

  Body, Vulnerable, Dangerous

  W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Brother, Believe, People

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• Elementary school children are very impressionable

  David J. Anderson

  Children, School, Elementary School

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• Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

  Tip O'Neill

  Rocks, Mind, Type

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• A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Role Models, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

  Grimes

  Consistency

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