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Quotes About Impress

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
~ Oscar Wilde
You are crazy! whispered Meggie. You're a total lunatic! But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. So what? All writers are lunatics!
~ Cornelia Funke
Franklin was worried that his fondness for conversation and eagerness to impress made him prone to "prattling, punning and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company." Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue." So in the Junto, he began to work on his use of silence and gentle dialogue.
~ Walter Isaacson
The way I move about a room will make a BROOM gasp and swoon
~ Charles 'Mr. Go Hard' Scott
Don't try so hard to impress. People fall in love with vulnerabilities more than strengths.
~ Terri Guillemets
It would impress him!" "Do you think so?" Lord Howley brightened. "Oh,yes,he loves it when people tell him how to run the country.
~ Heather Dixon
There was not one among the whole row of young men who could be compared with him.
~ Jane Austen
rain or snow. Mama worried and Papa was impressed;
~ Jane Smiley
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces
~ Janet Fitch
Going from Miami to L.A., it's such a different scene. In L.A., it's always dressing to impress. Miami is not, unless you go to South Beach.
~ Sabrina Claudio
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
~ Georg Solti
I have stolen the show many times.
~ Leigh Lezark
Dagenham offered me a two-year opportunity really. It wasn't a pro deal, just a chance to impress. I was sent out on loan straight away. I got a professional contract on the back of that and it wasn't until I started scoring in League Two that I actually realized, 'I'm professional footballer.'
~ Dwight Gayle
it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.
~ Timothy Ferriss
Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.
~ Timothy Ferriss
One time, I palmed some medicine balls, just because people wanted to see if I could do it.
~ Jahlil Okafor
it had been a winter of deadening seriousness, when all the illusions and bright dreams of my early twenties had withered and died. I did not yet have the interior resources to dream new dreams; I was far too busy mourning the death of the old ones and wondering how I was to survive without them. I was sure I could replace them somehow , but was not sure I could restore their brassy luster or dazzling impress .
~ Pat Conroy
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
~ William Gaddis
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...
~ William Gaddis
Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .
~ William Gaddis
They don't buy the product: They recycle the information. They use it to try to impress the next person they meet.
~ William Gibson
He be Hercules," said Billy. "He just defeated a monster made out of rocks and mud." Robin Hood looked impressed. "Did he indeed?
~ Chris Grabenstein
Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.
~ Chris Rock
Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon their own character.
~ Henry Drummond