Quotes about Impression

Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

Wanting to look good to others is also a form of the desire of the eyes.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul

You make an impression on everyone you meet, just as everyone you meet makes an impression on you. You need know when an acquaintance may become a associate. There is great power in your network.

We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.

More than by upper-class señoritas, with their long legs and blond manes, I've been impressed by the women of the people: mature, strong, hard-working, earthy.

The capital city had grown in alarming fashion: cardboard walls, tin roofs, people in rags clearly visible along the road from the airport. Since this made a very bad impression on visitors, for a long time the solution was to put up walls to hide them. As one politician said, 'Where there is poverty, hide it.

If we're really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what's causing us to do what we do.

This is the equivalent of saying that any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is, finally, accepted and acted upon by the subconscious mind, which proceeds to translate that impulse into its physical equivalent, by the most practical procedure available.

Unlike the English fogs he had known since he would walk, or those way north where he lived now, this one was sun fired, turning the world into thick, hot gold. Penetrating it was like struggling through a dream.