Quotes About Impression

I had staked all on Gussie making a favourable impression on his hostess, basing my confidence on the fact that he was one of those timid, obsequious, teacup-passing, thin-bread- and-butter-offering, yes-men whom women of my Aunt Dahlia's type nearly always like at first sight.

made her unapproachable, apart. She was one of those girls who pass through your life leaving secret wreckage, but no visible wake. You remember her, but for all the wrong reasons.

couldn't believe that an eleven-year-old boy had that kind of mind," the minister said. Bill

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

He had qualities, which I had never seen in any other man.

the results end up on the wrong side of memorable.

Distrust your first instinctive impression. Our first natural reaction in a disagreeable situation is to be defensive. Be careful. Keep calm and watch out for your first reaction. It may be you at your worst, not your best.

And the person who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he or she really possesses.

that the expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

How well you own up to your mistakes makes a bigger impression than how you revel in your successes.

physiognomy

But it was impossible to make any impression upon the middling people and the working labouring poor. Their fears were predominant over all their passions, and they threw away their money in a most distracted manner upon those whimsies.

Anybody might get drunk at the first intrrview.

You either have a feeling or you don't - Min

Eu me encontro querendo impressionar você de uma maneira que nunca pensei em fazer antes, mas estar com você debilitou minha autoconfiança. Eu questiono meus motivos agora, de tudo que faço.

My father is on the roof. This is how I remember him sometimes. Well-dressed in a dark suit and shiny, slippery shoes, he is looking left, looking right, looking as far as his eyes will travel. Then, looking down, he sees me, and just as he begins to fall he smiles, and winks. All the way down he's looking at me–smiling, mysterious, mythic, an unknown quantity: my dad.

because in my mind—in the memory that has lodged itself imperturbably in my mind, my father resembles Abraham Lincoln, a man with long arms and deep pockets and dark eyes...

I don't believe in love at first sight.

I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.

Be as you wish to seem.

We are going to learn more by what we see than by what we hear. Our actions speak so loudly that we don't have to say a word.. Words only account for about seven percent of our communication.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.