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Quotes About Impression

If someone tells me he has bought the outfit of a tightrope walker I am not impressed until I see what is done with it.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Un'ora breve di dolore c'impressiona lungamente; un giorno passa e non lascia traccia.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
I don't love him, Suzette muttered. Lisa looked at her with patent disbelief. Suzette, you have been following the man around like a puppy for days now. And if you do not love him, you are certainly doing a very good impression of heartbreak.
~ Lynsay Sands
You took your time,' she complained. He stared at her. 'You didn't want me here. You sent me a letter.' She laughed until she coughed. 'I never did!' she said, in the tone of a younger woman who learns only now of some bravura socio-sexual faux pas achieved with the aid of alcohol a week, a month or a year before. It was one of her most effective impersonations. For a moment she seemed full of life. 'I never did!
~ M. John Harrison
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
~ M. John Harrison
Ora, eu creio que um velho túmulo dá melhor impressão do ofício, se tem as negruras do tempo, que tudo consome. O contrário parece sempre da véspera.
~ Machado de Assis
novela à reimpressão que ora se faz parece que explicam as diferenças de composição e de maneira do autor. Se este não lhe daria agora a mesma feição, é
~ Machado de Assis
I stared at him; he seemed to relish my astonishment.
~ Machado de Assis
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
~ Machiavelli
De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]
~ Machiavelli, Niccolò
None of us likes to see himself as he must appear to others.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The As were judged to be much more alert, poised, attractive, and well dressed. In fact, the scores on those four dimensions are so different as to make you think you are looking at two different species of humans. You aren't, of course. You're simply seeing the difference between those schooled by their families to present their best face to the world, and those denied that experience.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
this wasn't about something really obvious, such as skin color or age or height or weight. It was just about hair. Something about the first impression created by my hair derailed every other consideration in the hunt for the rapist.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see
~ Malcolm Gladwell
the fair had completely altered for him. The merry grinding of the roller skates, the cheerful if ironic music, the cries of the little children on their goose-necked steeds, the procession of queer pictures—all this had suddenly become transcendentally awful and tragic, distant, transmuted, as it were some final impression on the senses of what the earth was like, carried over into an obscure region of death, a gathering thunder of immedicable sorrow.
~ Malcolm Lowry
And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.
~ David Brier
Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.
~ Krishna Saagar
Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you're about.
~ Steve Maraboli
Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.
~ Anonymous
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
~ Andy Warhol
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
~ William James