Quotes About Impress

Instead, he'd been so desperate to prove to her that he did indeed fulfill that final requirement of hers—that of being a heroic officer—that he'd been thoughtless. He'd been so eager to show her that he was indeed no deserter, no pirate, but an actual knight, indeed, that he'd sat here sweating in his finest dress uniform waiting for her to regain her senses. He had wanted to impress her. Surprise her. Instead, he had shocked her into oblivion.

Homes, Gamache knew, were a self-portrait. A person's choice of color, furnishing, pictures. Every touch revealed the individual. God, or the Devil, was in the details. And so was the human. Was it dirty, messy, obsessively clean? Were the decorations chosen to impress, or were they a hodgepodge of personal history? Was the space cluttered or clear? He felt a thrill every time he entered a home during an investigation.

I've learned that if you want people to be impressed, you can talk about your successes; but if you want people to identify with you, it's better to talk about your failures.

She use to stress him, find ways to impress him...Now she think less of him and wishes the best for him.

Dress for success, to impress and to make your ex want to kick himself for letting you go.

Used to stress him, try to impress him, now I can care less for him. sh.., I wish the best for him.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

Once you play, you've got to show the manager what you can do.

The other people I don't take too seriously are the critics—except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they're just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it's spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they've rediscovered old, and they're celebrating detail and ornamentation.

It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.

You should remove your jacket," the Mage said. "Use it to shade your head." She didn't want to remove her one sign of authority, her one piece of armor, though in both respects the jacket offered little right now. "I'm a Mechanic." "I know that. Is there anyone around that you need to impress?

Temujin rewarded the slaves in this bountiful manner, partly, no doubt, out of sincere gratitude to them for having been the means, probably, of saving him and his army from destruction, and partly for effect, in order to impress upon his followers a strong conviction that any great services rendered to him or to his cause were certain to be well rewarded.

Mindlessly working to impress someone else will ensure your success is always dependent on that someone else.

When an abusive man feels the powerful stirring inside that other people call love, he is probably largely feeling: The desire to have you devote your life to keeping him happy with no outside interference The desire to have sexual access The desire to impress others by having you be his partner The desire to possess and control you

I'll deliberately order a jasmine tea and a fruit plate just to make a point to the client that I'm a serious and disciplined professional. I usually accompany that with a quick line about how shitty the hotel gym is. "The treadmill shakes too much at high speeds" is a fan favorite. The client is almost always impressed.

You don't have to be perfect to impress people. Let them be impressed by how you deal with your imperfections.

The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.

Ruining you now would be like shooting a squirrel and mounting its head. Nobody would be impressed.

By Christmas, like most freshmen, he was done with religion, and he mooched around campus with a copy of The Stranger under his arm, hoping to impress women with long dark hair and mysteries that needed to be solved.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

I am gonna shock the crowd, you are just gonna wow them.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

Life is too short to waste on negativity, live your life. Never try to impress your friends. Reach your goals.