Impressions Quotes

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

With me it's always about first impressions.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

I'm known for impressions and family stories.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.