Impression Quotes

The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression more readily taken.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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.

We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable, events pass over him without much impression.