Impression Quotes

A legacy is the impact and impression an individual makes and leaves behind in the lives of others; it no longer represents the individual, it represents the people who carry on his or her name with passion and integrity.

~ Farshad Asl

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

~ Sherry Turkle

A woman being able to make a man genuinely laugh leaves a much better impression on him than a woman who wants them to feel like she is nothing more than a sex object… believe me, they tend to not be as picky as you might think when it comes to that.

~ Heather Chapple

My first impression of [Patricia Highsmith] was a loneliness, a sadness in one so young (we were both in our early thirties) with absolutely no sense of joy or balance. Gauche to an extreme, really physically clumsy as well as boyish, it was almost impossible to put her at ease. It was as if she felt a deep distrust of everything.

~ Patricia Schartle

Knowledge of Self is very important, you can't be living in a world pretending to be someone you're not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don't have the courage to believe in yourself. You can not live to impress others solely not giving thought to express your true being. No one wants to interact with a pretender, a fake, a wannabe.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

People lack morals, good moral character is important in every aspect of your life. Honesty and Integrity opens the door. Your character allows others to see you for who you truly are. Make your first impression a lasting impression. Ironically it may be your last impression

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

~ Amit Kalantri

I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them. Nobu's touch had made a deeper impression on me than most. No one could tell me whether he would be my ultimate destiny, but I had always sensed the en between us. Somewhere in the landscape of my life Nobu would always be present. But could it really be that of all the lessons I'd learned, the hardest one lay just ahead of me? Would I really have to take each of my hopes and put them away where no one would ever see them again, where not even I would ever see them?

~ Arthur Golden

Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

~ Daniel Willey

Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn't make them love you, instead, they'll see you as a little child, trying to draw a senseless picture on a piece of paper, begging people to look at it and admire it by force. You can persuade someone to look at your face, but you can't persuade them to see the beauty therein.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

~ Marcel Proust

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don't smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your joy is divine.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

True leaders are willing to die for their dreams. They don't oppress with ignorance; they impress with visions. They live like Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

~ Ford Madox Ford

Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ( Kein Schwein ruft mich an )

~ Erik Pevernagie

When we look back into our lives we see that our life is but a collection, a collage of these moments which take the shape of images, images which lower our spirits, images which inspire, images which help us remember the people that have come along our way, touched us and silently left, images that go on to become memories and leave a lasting impression as long as we are here, as long as we are here to be.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either.

~ Josh Weil

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Shape your behavior and think about on how to make a good impression to others.

~ Napz Cherub Pellazo

When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, I changed my mind.

~ Sherry Turkle

Don't judge me by first impression, You will surprise onward.

~ Jenil Kanani

Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.

~ Garry Wills

Beauty of office, is profession in place

~ Hicham Zinalabdin

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

~ Jim Henson