Quotes About Impressions

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

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

Let's face it: a date is a job-interview, that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is: not many job-interviews is there a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it.

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

so-called leadership is characterized by a pathological reacting to the impressions of the moment and a total lack of any understanding of the command machinery and its possibilities.4 Halder told Lieutenant-General Kurt Dittmar of OKH that Hitler 'was a mystic, who tended to discount, even when he did not disregard, all the

Geralt was amazed by her arsenal of smiles.

StÃ…â"¢ezte se roz?arování, neb dojmy klamou. Takovými, jakými se zdají být, jsou vÄ›ci jen zÃ…â"¢ídkakdy. A ženy nikdy.

Jack Pikulski: I learned... ...that children's books not only inform and entertain, but they make lasting impressions and add richness to our lives and the lives of those we love. While I am definitely into my mature years, I still read children's books; I always will.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Think of your early dates as a chance to leave clues about your expectations with a little technique called pre-framing. Say: 'My friend gets annoyed because her boyfriend never opens the car door for her. It's a shame when guys don't do those little things.'

When people walk in a room, the way they sit or they talk, that itself tells me a story.

I've turned up to auditions and seen faces that I recognise and I think I know them. Then I realise I know them because they are on the telly.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

The content of every thought must be given, in the last analysis, in terms of the experiences that warrant it, and no belief can be established as true except by reference to the sensory 'impressions' that provide its guarantee. (This is the general assumption of empiricism.)

Il volto quasi familiare diventa un fenomeno comune in una società affollata ed in un continuo movimento. Penso talvolta che sia proprio ciò che in ultima analisi rimane di noi: schemi di lineamenti, alcuni un po' più persistenti degli altri, impressi sullo scorrere dei volti. (Il Boia torna a casa)

Tis with governments as with individuals, first impressions and early habits give a lasting bias to the temper and character.

Yet in all the years she'd stared at others, Emma had never seen so many good-looking people in one place before. The nurse…gorgeous. The doctor…gorgeous and so damn sweet. And that deputy guy…well, he went beyond gorgeous, but he was anything but sweet.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Noter nos impressions sur Hamlet après une relecture annuelle, écrivait Virginia Woolf, reviendrait à rédiger notre autobiographie puisque dès que nous en savons plus de la vie, Shakespeare commente ce que nous savons.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.