Quotes About Impressions

Sometimes I meet someone, he rubs me the wrong way. Your mother meets the same person, she thinks he's peachy keen.

The quality of denial—when disciplined—protects man from receiving impressions that are not in harmony with his nature. He adopts an attitude of total indifference to all suggestions that are foreign to that which he desires to express. Disciplined denial is not a fight or struggle but total indifference.

Tus impresiones al subconsciente determinan las condiciones que te rodean.

Cuando esta cualidad de negación es disciplinada, protege a la persona de recibir impresiones que no están en armonía con su naturaleza. Adopta una actitud de total indiferencia ante todas las sugerencias que son ajenas a lo que desea expresar. La negación disciplinada no es una lucha o un combate, sino una indiferencia total.

The works are finished. All that is required of you to let these qualities into expression is the claim—I AM that. Claim yourself to be that which you desire to be and that you shall be. Expressions follow the impressions, they do not precede them. Proof that you are will follow the claim that you are, it will not precede it.

For the most part we don't realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.

Oh long-drawn highway, how excellent you are! How often have I in weariness and despondency set forth upon your length, and found in you salvation and rest! How often, as I followed your leading, have I been visited with wonderful thoughts and poetic dreams and curious, wild impressions!

Dio mio, come sei bella, a volte, lunga, lunga strada. Quante volte, come un naufrago che sta per affogare mi sono afferrato a te, e tu ogni volta mi hai raccolto misericordiosa e mi hai salvato! E quante idee meravigliose sono nate in te, quante fantasie poetiche, quante impressioni stupende ho provato!

Ce frumos e?ti câteodat? drumule, drumule îndep?rtat! De câte ori, ca unul care piere ?i se îneac?, m-am ag??at de tine ?i tu de fiecare dat? m-ai scos cu m?rinimie la mal ?i m-ai salvat! ?i câte idei minunate, câte vis?ri poetice mi-au venit în minte în timp ce te str?b?team, câte impresii încânt?toare mi-ai prilejuit!...

The physiological condition for memory and hence for learning seems to be a certain continuity of organization, which allows the alterations produced by outer sense impressions to be retained as more or less permanent changes of structure or function . Metamorphosis is too radical to leave much lasting record of these changes. It is indeed hard to conceive of a memory of any precision which can survive this process of radical internal reconstruction.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.

The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.

The primitive man experiences "soul," first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer world, and develops his impressions in mythological form. His words for these things are symbols, sounds, not descriptive of the indescribable but indicative of it for him who hath ears to hear.

A politician who brings personal integrity into leadership helps us reclaim the popular trust that distinguishes true democracy from its cheap imitations.

Trivial things light fuses in the memory.

Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.

You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams.

The key to the whole problem of this ancient Mystery-Institution was given by Plutarch when he wrote: 'At the moment of death the soul experiences the same impressions as those who are initiated into the great Mysteries.' Scholars

All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being.

Poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions.

It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.