Quotes About Impressionable

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

Em seus olhos havia a luz que só se vê em crianças que chegam a um lugar novo, ou nos jovens ainda abertos a novas influências, ainda curiosos quanto ao mundo porque ainda não foram calejados pela vida.

or the next night. Who was he? A naïve, untrained individual ready to gush over any new theory that came

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

My favorite movie star, far and away, was Errol Flynn. I thought that this guy was the greatest because he always played such heroic roles. He was either the sheriff of Dodge City, or he was Robin Hood, or he was Captain Blood. When I would leave the theater, I'd be about 10 years old I guess ... I would imagine I had a little crooked smile on my face the way Errol Flynn did, and an imaginary sword at my side. I'd be looking around for little girls that might be [attacked] by some bullies.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw whatever you liked on their impressionable surfaces.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

No love could stand up against the sight of me in a sailor suit at the age of ten. I

Moral: Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched." Master

Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched.

The young remember most deeply

A man so easily influenced is to be treasured." "As

We hardly know our own preferences in abstract matters; some of us are easily talked out of them, and end by following the fashion or taking up with the beliefs of the most impressive philosopher in our neighborhood, whoever he may be.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

Now all I can see is how simple he made everything sound. Reading the Fillory books you would think that all one has to do is behave honorably and bravely and all will be well. What a lesson to teach young children. What a way to prepare them for the rest of their lives.