Best 198 quotes in «impression quotes» category

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

Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything.

Not that I do not wish to be under the impression of your love just that I am too logical even in love.

Reality is an internal impression of the external world.

Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.

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.

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

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

People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression

Shape your behavior and think about on how to make a good impression to others.

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!

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Some of the men who we are openly praising are secretly sleeping with their own daughters … without their consent.

Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ( "Kein Schwein ruft mich an" )

The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in the body as rather merely excite apprehensions of its existence: and human nature is so constituted – a trait which the animal lacks – that it is able to strengthen or make permanent local impressions simply by paying attention to them, whereas an abstraction – whether produced on purpose or by other diverting occupations – lessen these impressions, or even effaces them altogether.

The danger of procrastination is that it gives you fake impression that you have all the time and makes you forget that time passes by every second and minute.

The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.

The memory was unpleasant; he'd taken an instant disliking to the man. Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

The very same person can, at the very same time, seem at peace to some people, and depressed or even suicidal to some.

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.

Three rules to obey! 1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories! 3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!

Time is deceptive, it gives you an impression that its with you but passes away without your knowledge

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

To see what they look like, women look at a mirror. To look like what they see, women read magazines.

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 leave an Impression on someone’s Heart, rather than a Paper.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

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

When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand.

When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete.

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

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.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us.

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

You only get one chance to make a positive first impression — be absolutely sure to take it!

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.