Best 82 quotes in «impress quotes» category

How's that sister of yours?" I ask, changing the subject. "She's waiting to beat you again at checkers." "Is that right? Well, tell her I was goin easy on her. I was tryin' to impress you." "By losing?" I shrug. "It worked, didn't it?" I notice her fidgeting with her dress as if she needs to fix it to impress me. Wanting to ease her anxiety, I slide my fingers down her arm before capturing her hand in mine. "You tell Shelley I'll be back for a rematch," I say. She turns to me, her blue eyes sparkling. "Really?" "Absolutely.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.

I don't like flowers, chocolate, cakes or diamonds either, I am definitely not a hard one to impress.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

It is seldom possible to respect someone about whom you know everything.

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone

If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is going to appreciate you for your efforts and deeds.

Our choice of words often reveal the depth of our knowledge … or ignorance … or that of our desire to be deemed knowledgeable.

India, where English is a medium to 'Impress' not 'Express'...

My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.

People are a lot more attractive when they are not trying to impress you. Let go of the bullshit & start being you!

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.

Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon. "You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me." Great. Now I was talking to guns.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja?

There's no point showing off when there's no-one to impress.

Trying to impress other people is possibly the biggest insult you can hurl at yourself.

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions". They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

Try to please or impress everyone and you'll fail the person that's most important; YOU. Everyone won't think your funny, smart or that you deserve that promotion. Some will say you are not a good parent, sibling, spouse, partner, friend or child. Just be the best person possible. If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

You cannot really not care about what other people think of you and still wear a perfume or cologne.

When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.

Working after hours is an illusive and ridiculous way to prove your value. …not to mention, COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE. Stop procrastinating the day so you can pretend to work at night to impress. It’s not impressive. Get results and go home early.

You were not born to impress the world, but to impress the universe.

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

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

A short skirt and lots of makeup won't impress me.

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

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me!

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 not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

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

Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl.

I undress to impress - Patch

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.

It's not a performance to impress the Puritans

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

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.