Quotes About Impression

This reaction from the disappointment which great works of art cause at first may in fact be attributed to a weakening of the initial impression or to the effort necessary to lay bare the truth—two hypotheses which recur in all important questions, questions about the truth of Art, of Reality, of the Immortality of the Soul; we must choose between them;

When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in a slender, incorporeal outline which prevented me from ever coming directly in contact with the material form;

Because one can avoid dangers by watching out while crossing the street, one has the impression that one can also avoid punishment. But punishments can come from within; and the unexpected danger may arise from the heart. The words she had spoken, "If you like, we could wrestle a bit more," now horrified

to our paying too much attention to the aspect, the manners of what a person is not but would like to be, in forming our first impression of that person. To the outward appearance affectation, imitation, the longing to be admired, whether by the good or by the wicked, add misleading similarities of speech and gesture.

The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.

Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

The lobby was at once attractive and bleak, a place meant to impress without creating the desire to linger.

We should not be impressed when our leaders say firmly, "History teaches us" or "History will show that we were right." They can oversimplify and force inexact comparisons just as much as any of us can. Even the clever and the powerful (and the two are not necessarily the same) go confidently off down the wrong paths. It is useful, too, to be reminded, as a citizen, that those in positions of authority do not always know better.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Doctrine of Signatures. It held that the medicinal qualities in plants were made visible as "signatures of Natures owne impression," and writers quite commonly express the wish that human beings bore similar imprints so that one could tell a person's worth by some sign on his person.

Pressed to give a name to this misty play of light on the water for the catalogue for the 1874 exposition that included Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir, and Degas, Monet apparently said, "put 'impression.'" The painting, Impression, Sunrise, certainly made one, as did the show—thereafter the group was referred to as the Impressionists.

It would be difficult to ignore the impression that there exists a connection of some sort between creativity and solitude, that creativity commonly involves a more or less prolonged retraction of psychic energies from the external world.

The man was more temperamental than she was. Not an easy feat. (Mina's view of Diego.)

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.

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.

You are not Responsible for what people think about you. But, you are Responsible for what you give them to think about you...

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Remember: it's not about how self confident you are. It's about how self confident you seem.

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how the world sees us!

I want to make him stop dead, in the middle of the hall and say, 'Wow she's beautiful.'

Freedom discovers you the moment you lose concern of what impression you're making or about to make.