Quotes About Impressions

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over I'd automatically do impressions of them as soon as they left; it was my mom's favorite thing.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.

Pages entertain me more than pictures do.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

By the term 'impression', then, I mean all our more lively perceptions when we hear or see or feel or love or hate or desire or will. These are to be distinguished from ideas, which are the fainter perceptions of which we are conscious when we reflect on our impressions.

The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion. That is a contradiction in terms; and even implies the flattest of all contradictions, viz. that it is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS.

No tenemos una idea perfecta de nada más que de una percepción. Una substancia es enteramente diferente de una percepción. Por consiguiente, no tenemos una idea de substancia.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.