Quotes About Impressions

It does not mean that adults think of a child as a blank sheet of paper on which they imprint their ideas, impressions, and knowledge. Neither does it mean leaving the child unattended like a weed growing in a sidewalk. It is a balanced understanding of education as the provision of possibilities for a person to build relationships with a vast number of things and thoughts.

Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind.

There is nothing holier in the world than to keep good company, because the good impressions will then tend to come to the surface.

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

every sense impression that you receive through any of the five senses, influences your thoughts.

We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.

We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions

Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots in words.

Desde la ventana lo veíamos aparecer por el fondo de la calle, alto, con su rápida forma de caminar: venía comiendo cerezas y arrojando los huesos contra la pared con un tiro seco y fulminante. Para mí la derrota de Francia quedó unida para siempre a aquellas cerezas que él nos hacía probar cuando llegaba, sacándoselas una a una del bolsillo con su mano parsimoniosa y huraña.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

Having finally come to the end of this narrative, Malcolm was left with two abiding impressions: first, that Fafner the dragon, instead of keeping his money under the mattress like everyone else, had kept his mattress under the money; second, that humanity generally gets the Gods it deserves.

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.

When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws.

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Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.

leave upon it different pictures, and the result of these combined impressions is what is called man's "character." If you take the character of any man it really is but the aggregate of tendencies, the sum-total of the bent of his mind; you will find that misery and happiness are equal factors in the formation

The only remedy for bad habits is counter habits; all the bad habits that have left their impressions are to be controlled by good habits. Go on doing good, thinking holy thoughts continuously; that is the only way to suppress base impressions. Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.