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Quotes About Impress

Everyone tries to impress that special someone, but if you can't get them by being yourself, then they can't be that special.
~ Unknown
That spark of new creation, the new phrase that genuinely surprises, the act that bears the impress of a live consciousness: these are astonishingly rare. Human beings are everywhere overcome by rituals and dead language, by threadbare notions about what is real.
~ Unknown
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
~ Marie Curie
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others. The measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.
~ Mark Goulston
Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.
~ Neil Simon
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
You can never really be free until you have no need to impress anyone. When you lock your heart away in a safe, no hurt gets in... But no love gets in, either. Open your heart and give love another chance again.
~ Unknown
All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say, "Yo Goober! Where's the meat?" I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.
~ Matt Groening
So, even as I deride television, I am fantasizing about propagating this view on talk shows. And even as I give the impression of being coolly indifferent to the opinion of others, I am coolly calculating the best way to impress. What I want is to be loved for never wanting to be loved.
~ Michael Foley
Scrimmage is one of the most intense parts of a practice. Its a chance for the coach to really analyze how skilled a played. For a first practice with a new coach, you want to show off a bit, impress him. There was no way I was going to impress anybody, not after the gruelling workout I'd just been through. I could hardly believe that I'd only been on the ice for 45 minutes with a half-hour still to go. It felt like I'd been doing hard labor for hours.
~ Unknown
We end up making false promises to others by trying to impress them too much.
~ Unknown
Words well to the surface and I let them out, even as I know I should not. "Perhaps I do not wish to sparkle, Aunt. Sparkle falsely. I say what comes to mind. I will not waste energy creating idle chatter meant only to impress." Casandra comes to my defense. "Your characters sparkle, Jane." I grab on to the diversion. "Which is even more reason why I personally cannot. For I only have so much sparkle within me, and I chuse [sic] to save it for them.
~ Unknown
It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.
~ Nate Ruess
Thought and feeling fused into beliefs impress modifications upon it, charge it with a mission, which mission it faithfully executes.
~ Neville Goddard
The peacock's gaudy tail does not enable him to fly any higher, but it raises his status in the eyes of the peahen.
~ Unknown
The key incident for me was that I never had any friends. And I realized that in order to have friends and impress people, I had to do something extraordinary.
~ Unknown
It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
~ Nigella Lawson
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
~ Nile Rodgers
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~ Orson Welles
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people
~ Oscar Wilde
Gaining the skills of magnetism, how to impress, connect, and ultimately influence others, is paramount to success in life.
~ Unknown
He's not upset because you didn't trust him, or that you tricked Sim. He's upset because you found out what asinine lengths he is willing to go to in order to impress a woman." He looked at me. "Is 'asinine' the right word?" I took a deep breath and let it out. "Pretty much," I admitted. "I chose it because it sounded like ass," Wil said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
One of the benefits of certain activities is the respect and admiration you get from others. This relates to difficulty and risk and ability in an obvious way. If climbing Everest were pleasant and easy, nobody would be impressed that you did it.
~ Paul Bloom
Knowing that he should impress Bob meant that Ernest was ineluctably drawn to offend him.
~ Paula McLain