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“I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I think it made a big impression on me.”

Thinking Made Bigs Three Parent Impression Trash Popping Goodman Trash Cans

Author:Val Kilmer

“I've found, as I'm sure you have, that when you're trying to learn from the Lord and you feel an impression from the Spirit, it's important to make a note so it will not be forgotten. The more you not only hear but abide by what you've been told, the more the Lord will give to you. It will come more and more rapidly and you will begin to hear and feel those impressions of the Spirit more quickly than you have previously done.”

Giving Feels Trying Important Done Spirit Found Lord Notes Forgotten Impression

Author:Gene R. Cook

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.”

Knows Men Form Artist Know How Impression Objectives Subjective Convincing

Author:Maxim Gorky

“For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.”

Men Doe Book Reason Form Greater Particular Circumstances Succeed Equal Species Harm Cease Impression Nonsense Absurdity Wickedness Dominion

Book:The Letters of David Hume:

Source: The Letters of David Hume:

“An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.”

Way Eye Life Is Gone Waste Consequence Flow Ears Active Impression Motor Incomplete Pupils Active Life

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.”

People America Guy Black Walks Streets Walking Impression Tall Bob Frustrating Black Guys

Author:Justin Simien

“In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.”

“The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.”

Trying Causes Process Groups Disease Research Impression Corporations Interviews Fund Profitable

Author:Ravida Din

“In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.”

Thinking Ideas Inspiration Wanted Artist Term Community Type Impression

Author:Laura Owens

“When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.”

Humans Speak Goal Achieve Information Communicate Impression Attempting

Author:Francine Prose

“Neural repatterning comes as we enter into and sustain new types of relationships that allow us to reregulate our sense impressions slowly and over time.”

Type Impression

Author:Tian Dayton

“In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.”

Ifs Moments Facts Life Is Talking Teacher Alive Car Activity Office Driving Impression Something New Spouse Freeways

Book:The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

Source: The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types

“In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.”

“The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.”

Doe Important Wish Rate Impression Sand Burying Ostriches

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.”

Firsts Looks Sometimes My Own Impression Colour Freeze First Impression Smartness Impressionism

Author:Catherine Taylor

“I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.”

People Character Action Direct Access Impression Realization Balloons Narration Showy

Author:Adrian Tomine

“There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.”

Trying Character Shows Artist Certain Impression Filmmaker Immoral Showing Off

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full of uncertainties. It still is. My "Buddha book" expresses that. Perhaps that's what created this impression of earnestness.”

Thinking Long Stills Book Impression Uncertainty Cynicism Skepticism Earnest Earnestness Early Life

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”

Artist Painting Aim Impression Intimate Transcription

Book:Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.”

People Impression Daydreaming

Author:Shakira

“We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are here to save people, even when we have very limited resources.”

People Creating Expectations Resources Blame Impression Limited Resources

Author:Kofi Annan

“When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.”

Knows Men Giving Country Views Talking Millions Know How Honest Impression Viewers

Author:Scott Pelley

“Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.”

Way Sometimes Dream Action Various Punishment Impression Dependent Cunning Morbid Crime And Punishment Deranged Crime Books

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.”

Source: On War

“The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.”

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.”

Source: The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000

“This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.”

Ifs Looks Our Lives Seeing Willing Quiet Benefits Impression Pauses Viewers Battering

Author:Dorothea Lange

“Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.”

People Firsts Sometimes Past Chance Messages Impression Second Chance First Impression

Book:Day by Day with Charles Swindoll

Source: Day by Day with Charles Swindoll

“And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.”

Knows Firsts Matter Young Steps Shapes Mark Impression Permanent First Steps What Matters

Author:Plato

“There's a difference between feeling like I don't need to explain and deliberately confusing you. If the impression is that I'm deliberately confusing you, that is not what I am trying to do at all.”

Ifs Needs Trying Feelings Differences Impression Confusing

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.”

Made Government Difficult Decision Deals Company Products Needed Findings Perception Sells Impression Software Hardware Disclosure Snowden Encryption

Author:Michael Morell

“No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me.”

Made Impression

Author:David Ogilvy

“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”

Good Things Slave Impression

Book:John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“I like to make an impression.”

Author:Johnny Damon

“There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.”

World Firsts Mean Doe Moments Offers Waste Judgment Stress Impression Make Sense Snaps Haste First Impression Snap Judgment

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.”

People Giving Believe Looks Easy Fool Speech Victim Impression Underestimate Underestimate Me

Author:Edgerrin James

“The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.”

Source: The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

“We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.”

Trying Character Grows Responsibility Stage Ambition Concern Strive Appearance Impression Making Money Compare Fades Being Popular Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Stephen Covey

“What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.”

People Giving Views Taken Fate Influence Normal Determined Impression Analysis Possessed Pursued Psycho Infantile Transference

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.”

Thinking Knows Needs Humans Has Beens Human Beings Impression Selfishness Essays Advocating Reinforcement

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.”

Giving Should Writing Made Enough Stories Imagination Pleasure Perception Spring Impression

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design.”

Wells May Choices Next Views Effects Design Concerned Impression Construction

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.”

People Thinking Stills Ends Danger Impression Narrative Make Sense Edits

Author:Errol Morris

“First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.”

Firsts Individual Groups Members Impression Mask Variation

Author:Carolyn Hax

“If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Different Film Streets Grew Grew Up First Time Architecture Impression Filmmaker Temper Angle New Yorkers Sidewalk Cab

Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven

“I just have a different impression of the human race. I think we're really resilient. I think there are a lot of cynical people out there right now, and probably for good reason. But I think that ever cynic is really a damaged romantic, and they really, really, really want things to be good. And if that's the case, I don't need to tell a story that says, "Humanity, look what you've done. Now you can't go out. There's no sun. Look how you've wrecked the world." That's not me. That's not my job.”

People Ifs Thinking World Want Needs Humans Looks Different Reason Done Stories Jobs Humanity Race Cases Sun Right Now Be Good Impression Human Race Cynical Resilient Cynic

Author:J.H. Wyman

“I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.”

People Want Littles Impression Cocky

Author:ASAP Rocky

“The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.”

Ifs Men Littles Too Much Failing Trouble Lays Spread Accomplish Impression Great Men Altars

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.”

May Has Beens Spirit Given Christ Roles Clear Holy Evidence Commitment Impression Being True Sufficient Holy Spirit Ignored Orthodoxy Afterthought

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.”

Source: The Design and Evolution of C++