Quotes About Impression

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

Catechesis means impressing upon youth a Life, not a religion. —KENDA DEAN AND RON FOSTER

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you have to go to the bathroom?

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

To beguile the time, look like the time.

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.