Impress Quotes

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

Men seem to think that Page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

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.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

Women love to impress and be their best.

I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the face's behaviour, immersed in a social process.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

The people that always impress me are the ones that are curious about what they're going to do next.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.

We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

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.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.

In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.

The same facts impress us differently.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth.

Instead of you trying to impress others, why don't you strive to become the one that people would love to positively impress?

Living to impress others is only acceptable by those who haven't discovered their true purpose in life .

No matter how hard you think that you are pushing, there is always more left in you to turn your drive up a notch. Vow to continuously impress your inner positive self.

To feel the joy of presence, do not try to express or impress.