Impress Quotes

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

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

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

That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God.

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

Stop buying things you don't need, to impress people you don't even like.

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

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

Actually Gabriel’s an archangel,” I corrected. “But otherwise, yes.” “Well, that explains why he’s so hard to impress,” said Xavier flippantly

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

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

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

I undress to impress - Patch

You dress to impress," I said approvingly. "No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

You are in big trouble when you start writing software to impress girls.

Novelties please less than they impress.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like

If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.

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

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us.

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.

The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time - never judges, just is.

If you are going to set out to develop mystical powers to impress your friends and do other things to your enemies, the difficulty with it is that you will not be moving towards enlightenment.

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.

It feels good to finally stand on top of vanquished sloth, and actually impress some people as a hard worker.

Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

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