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“My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.”

Mind Courses Impression Movies In General

Author:Alejandro Amenabar

“I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially. And it's to her credit that she was interested in this, let me say. But once again, I'm not sure the extent to which Roosevelt - I guess he did use her really, particularly on the civil rights front. No question about it, because she was well identified out there, and brought a good many blacks into the Administration, into the White House, into his presence and so on.”

Thinking Wells Use House White Rights Fronts Let Me Credit Active Impression Civil Rights Administration Not Sure Good Man White House Eleanor

Author:William A. Rusher

“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in general is to her credit, although it tended, as many people thought, to just be overdone to the point where it gave rise to this crack that she regarded the whole world as one vast slum project”

People Thinking World Country Done Whole Social Projects Conscience Decided Credit Active Impression Whole World Cracks Slums Eleanor Descending Announcing Disadvantaged Ozarks

Author:William A. Rusher

“So in many ways, the bombing at the end of this year and the terrorist attack of last year in Peshawar have bookended both those years in a very unfortunate way. But at a bigger picture since, the impression in Pakistan is that things are actually improving on the terrorism front quite dramatically.”

Way Years Ends Lasts Fronts Bigger Terrorism Terrorist Impression Last Year Unfortunate Improving Pakistan Bombing Terrorist Attacks Bigger Picture

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.”

Firsts Moving West Impression California First Impression Wild West

Author:Billy Joel

“My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.”

Firsts Kind Young Guy Seeing Fields First Time Caught Monsters Impression This Guy First Impression

Author:Nate Burleson

“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.”

People Looks Made Remember Born Talking Growing Up Growing Mom Daughter Democrat My Mom Impression Grandmother My Grandmother Like Her Syndromes Younger Sister Down Syndrome

Author:Josh Earnest

“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.”

Effects Conversation Impression Remembered

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and do impressions. So I think that the way I approach it is really loving story. That's my first love - the words. The words and the story and how to create images. I guess I come at that as a director. I think that's much more in my personality to be a director, so that's kind of informed my acting.”

Thinking Way Want Firsts Kind Stories Acting Personality Directors Approach Tables Impression First Love

Author:Jodie Foster

“Nowadays, you really have to make an impression quick and I think this does give people a chance to show off what they've got. It's very difficult these days. You really have to stand out quickly. I think it's also so diverse that there's enough material for everybody.”

People Thinking Giving Doe Enough Shows Difficult Chance Materials Impression These Days Diverse Standing Out Showing Off

Author:Julie Halston

“I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.”

Way Would Be Wanted Form Impossible Available Impression Uncomfortable Wrong Impression

Author:Owen Pallett

“Diplomacy was what I wanted to do. From really quite an early age and I think I had a false impression that diplomacy equals travel.”

Thinking Age Wanted Impression Diplomacy

Author:John Gimlette

“Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.”

Giving Done Imagination Successful Dog Research Technique Impression Ice Exploration

Author:John Gimlette

“I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.”

People Want Book Ends Laughing Impression Admire The End Of The Day Paraguay

Author:John Gimlette

“I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.”

People Knows Sound Voice My Own Internet Impression

Author:Bradford Cox

“You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.”

People Should Impression Association

Author:Alan Palomo

“Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.”

Firsts America Growing Up Growing Sky England Impression Hopeful Sarcasm Grey Cheerful First Impression Grey Skies

Author:Stanley Donwood

“I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes the diagnosis based on some standard tests and also on clinical impression and skill.”

Thinking Children Parent Talking Teacher Skills Standards Gold Tests Impression Diagnosis Interacting Clinicals Gold Standard Astute Clinicians

Author:Gerald Fischbach

“I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.”

Shows Fans Impression Daily Show

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.”

Men Mind Soul God Body Truth Pain Together Passion Events Ignorance Shapes Impression Disobedience Forgetfulness

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.”

People Needs Inspiration Care Lasts Motivation Don't Care Impression

Author:Tim Jackson

“Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.”

Knows Want Fighting Opinion Members Areas Victim Unions Impression Greek Survivor Floating Public Opinion Greece Not Alone Constructive Euro

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first is whatever their actual job is; the second consists of managing others' impressions of them, especially by hiding weaknesses and inadequacies - which is an enormous waste of energy.”

Firsts Two Jobs Energy Waste Weakness Enormous Impression Hiding Harvard Psychologist Inadequacy Developmental Two Jobs Work Place

Author:Ray Dalio

“[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.”

Different Courses House Stars Sound Heard Particular Dad Filled Jazz My Dad Impression Producers Giants Uncles Music Business Music Producer Dixieland

Author:Billy Crystal

“I think what happened is that everybody's impressions got formed in those first few minutes. And I felt like, by the latter part of it, I kind of clawed my way back into the discussion. But everybody's impressions were set at the beginning. And wholly apart from me and whether I was good or bad, you know, there were a lot of hostile questions.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Kind Felt Happened Minutes Impression My Way Discussion Latter Hostile

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.”

People Way Feels Use Film Changed Blessing Cameras Forgotten Impression My Way Uncomfortable Filmmaker Digital Changed My Life Digital Cameras Approaching Life

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.”

Bigs Remember Film Found Felt Attention Red Cameras Heavy Impression Relate Pay Attention Shooting Crew Avoiding Assistants

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.”

Feels Should Trying Mind Firsts Past Stuff Memories Focus One Thing Figures Judgment Criticism Machines Busy Stores Impression Tension Holding On Stressed Grudge Intricate One Thing At A Time

Author:MC Yogi

“Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.”

Firsts Hours Rooms Results Fine First Time Empty Blow Impression Hotel Yield Hotel Rooms Foreign Places

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“I just love Kate. [Bieber], to me, is one of the funniest impressions because it's so all encompassing. It's like a total body and soul impression. But that's Kate. Every character she does is that way.”

Way Doe Soul Character Body Impression Kate

Author:Paul Feig

“I do not believe so many Turks suspect my activities. The idea that this movement of volunteers is suspected by many Turks arises in the same way and for the same reasons that the world hears more about those Muslims whom the media call radicals. Since those who give this impression are extremely loud, some observers can be deceived.”

World Way Giving Believe Ideas Reason Media Movement Activity Impression Arise Radical Loud Suspects Volunteer Observers Deceived

Author:Fethullah Gulen

“I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their deeds. And my parents taught me through the stories of their lives. And I don't take any credit for the things that they did or the things that they experienced, but they made a great impression on me.”

Knows Made Stories Parent My Own Teach Taught Deeds Credit Impression Most Powerful

Author:Samuel Alito

“I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.”

People Thinking Men Done Young Effort Responsibility Fairs Impression Young Man Convince Taking Responsibility

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.”

Feels Humans Feelings Certain Lines Consciousness Pressure Instruments Impression Operations Host Principal Expansion Monopoly Sensory Mutation

Author:William S. Burroughs

“We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.”

Stills Bigs Failing Planets Ocean Weight Impression

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I don't want anybody to be under a misunderstanding. Donald Trump never even said the word "assassination." That was the word used by Hillary Clinton in 2008, which CNN is calling a gaffe. (impression) "But Trump meant it! Yeah, Trump, he meant it." With Hillary, "It was a gaffe! We all know Hillary Clinton, and we all know Hillary Clinton didn't really mean what she said." Yeah, right. Double standards.”

Knows Want Mean Said Used Trump Calling Standards Yeah Clinton Impression Misunderstanding Really Mean Assassination Cnn Double Standard

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.”

World Way Self Sound Pay Attention Five Awareness Taste Sight Self Awareness Smell Senses Impression Pay Attention Sensory Five Senses Taste And Smell

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Experiencing the silence of meditation doesn't have to be complicated. You can lie on the floor with arms and legs outspread, paying attention to the sensations in your body. You can observe the outflow and inflow of your breath. You can also go to a park and let the impressions of nature calm your brain.”

Body Lying Attention Brain Silence Meditation Arms Breaths Calm Legs Complicated Your Body Impression Pay Attention Parks Sensations Arms And Legs

Author:Deepak Chopra

“[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I've seen such exhibitions in that direction as having someone come out of his office to the switchboard operator - which at that time was sort of located in the center of wherever people were waiting - and ask to call such-and-such a place, or a call through to Mr. So-and-so, or somebody like this, you see.”

People Asks Waiting White Office Busy Impression Exhibitions Operators Walter White

Author:Ella Baker

“Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.”

Fighting Left Interest Media Negative Impression Consumers Agriculture Coverage Media Coverage

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.”

Needs Firsts Wells Mean Important Jobs Stuff Pay Directors Impression Agents Managers Casting You Like It First Impression Consoling Casting Directors Good First Impression

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.”

Way Firsts Heard Havens Impression Rays Impressed

Author:Van Morrison

“When I was in England, I had seen advertisements about typing agencies; I had learned that if you really want to make a good impression, you should have your manuscript well typed.”

Ifs Want Should Wells Should Have England Impression Agency Manuscripts Advertisements Typing

Author:Chinua Achebe

“A biologist, if he wishes to know how many toes a cat has, does not "frame the hypothesis that the number of feline digital extremities is 4, or 5, or 6," he simply looks at a cat and counts. A social scientist prefers the more long-winded expression every time, because it gives an entirely spurious impression of scientificness to what he is doing.”

Ifs Knows Giving Looks Long Doe Science Wish Social Numbers Know How Expression Research Cat Scientist Impression Digital Toes Hypothesis Biologist Extremity Feline

Author:Anthony Standen

“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.”

People Ifs Firsts Looks May Belief Strong Company Failing Effects Succeed Assuming Impression Competent First Impression Halos Good First Impression

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.”

Opinion Judgment Impression Overconfident

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.”

Men Beautiful Hate Produce He Man Mirrors Impression Hate Him

Author:Marquis de Sade

“My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.”

Values Memories Impression Elimination

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“I will leave an impression.”

Author:Puff Daddy

“Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.”

Way Made Bigs Voice Clear Written Shots Impression Loud Unusual

Author:Curtis Hanson