Quotes About Impression

I don't believe in love at first sight but I do believe in judging at first sight.

My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer, and Eduardo won't come close to getting in. The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It's no secret that a headmistress's biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane." "Hello to Jane," he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his shorts in a silly curtsey. I couldn't decide if it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen, or the funniest, so I stared back at him.

He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.

Maybe I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

Their expressions gave Moon the impression that was he was being watched with disapproval, but he felt like that a lot, so it was probably just him.

He hadn't said Tremaine was crazy either. He gave the impression that he was used to being pulled out of a sound sleep to humor people in the middle of a cold night... "Maybe that's why I love him," Tremaine thought, lifting an ironic brow at herself. Then she processed that thought. "I do what?

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

a person generally stands to benefit more from appearing dumber than he is rather than smarter.

Other studies have shown that when people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment, or product within ninety seconds, between 62 and 90 percent of that assessment is based on color alone.

student Theaetetus to imagine the mind as a block of wax "on which we stamp what we perceive or conceive." Whatever is impressed upon the wax, Socrates said, we remember and know, provided the image remains in the wax, but "whatever is obliterated or cannot be impressed, we forget and do not know."1 A metaphor so suggestive and widespread that we still say that an experience "made an impression.

So the bond with the desert had to be renewed in every generation -fresh air for the breast, pure Arabic for the tongue, freedom for the soul; and many of the sons of Quraysh were kept as long as eight years in the desert, so that it might make a lasting impression upon them, though a lesser number of years was enough for that:

Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.

Optimism about the survival of our species may be a summary of all the things we have refined, but we hardly see any difference between the things that can actually move humanity forward and those that give the impression that we as a species are evolving.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

The hope of yellow must be nothing to the taste of it, she thought.

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Except for those occasional looks, she'd always had the impression he was avoiding her. And the fact that he was so attractive pinched hard. She'd done her best to ignore him, but she'd taken a liking to his herd of shining black Angus cattle. In fact she liked them a whole lot more than him.

Well! I'm glad you didn't call him a buffoon." "Or pompous," Pauline added. "Or ignorant," Jeb chimed in. "Or an ass," Kaden said. "I didn't call him an ass." Rafe grunted. "You may as well have." Now

I had seen Rahtan before in Ráj Nivad, but none had been like her. They looked like killers and brutes, and they were big. She barely reached past my shoulder. And they sure as hell never juggled.

asked? That letter you mailed seemed pretty

Maybe younger than the thirty he looked, still caught in style over substance.

Your precocity delighted everyone who met you even when you were behaving like a limb of Satan.