Impress quotes

“It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.”-Jim Rohn quotes

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.”-Dale Carnegie quotes

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe quotes

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” Anais Nin quotes

“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.” Scott Adams quotes

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.”-Henry Rollins quotes

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.”-Henry Rollins quotes

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”-Joanne Kathleen Rowling quotes

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.”-Corazon Aquino quotes

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.”-James Randolph Adams quotes

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”-Marie Curie quotes

All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat?'. I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.”-Dan Castellaneta quotes

“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends-Orson Welles quotes

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”-Orison Swett Marden quotes

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.”- David Ogilvy quotes

“It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”-Orison Swett Marden quotes

“Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold”-Aristotle quotes

He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.”

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”-Will Smith quotes

Love, I find, is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.”-Zora Neale Hurston quotes

“A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.”-Erich Fromm quotes

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”-Marie Curie quotes

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.”-Marie de France quotes

“I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they dislike”-Emile Henry Gauvreau quotes

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ''clicks.''”-Florence Scovel Shinn quotes

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends”-Orson Welles quotes

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.”-

Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like”-Henry Wotton, Sr. quotes

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.”-

Practicing egotism and selfishness, they try to impress others by showing off. They perform all sorts of rituals, but they gain no acceptance.”-Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes