Quotes About Impression

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of.

I have only to shut my eyes after looking at it to forget the face. I can remember the wall of the room, the little heater, but all impression of the face of the principal figure in the room is blotted out; I am unable to recall a single thing about it.

Something hard about her gives you the impression less of a beautiful woman than of a handsome young man.

The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Him.

If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men by a thick wall through which no sound could penetrate, then all understanding of the efforts of genius would be denied to ordinary men, and their works would fail to make any impression on them. All hopes of progress depend on this being untrue. And it is untrue. The difference between men of genius and the others is quantitative not qualitative, of degree not of kind.

First appearance deceives many.

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

I want them to see certain things. I want them to hear certain things. I want them to taste certain things.

What kinda family she come from? There was something about her I don't like. It seems funny, the first time you meet her she comes to your empty house alone. These college girls, they all one step from the streets. (MARTY turns, gowning, to his mother) MARTY What are you talkin' about? She's a nice girl. THE MOTHER I don't like her. MARTY You don't like her? You only met her for two minutes.

You must see yourself as you want others to see you,

Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

Vic's jaw snapped shut. "You didn't tell me the men here were all so … hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado.

You didn't tell me the men here were all so … hot." Lexi shrugged. "It's Colorado.

Brian noted Stephenson's thin face and was surprised to find that the term looking daggers was not as impossible as it had always sounded.

I jerked my chin toward Frost's body. 'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.' Hao said, "Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else." Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

Once that positive or negative impression is set into place, every one of your actions is viewed through it.

the snapshot of yourself that you present to others must be compelling… or at least not negative.

If you only rely on random chance and luck to make a great first impression, you will be waiting for a long time.

However, it's not negative to talk about negativity because it's an emotion like any other, and the more emotion you can generate in your interaction, the greater an impression you will make.

I don`t know if he was English but he spoke like it. He said good afternoon when everybody else said hardy weather or she looks like rain.