13 Quotes About Impression

Impressions are a powerful thing. They’re a truism, a truth that is so self-evident that we take it for granted. Impressions are everything from mannerisms to manner of dress, from body language to the way we talk, from tone of voice to the way we carry ourselves. Impressionists have been painting for centuries, and they’ve always been trying to capture this concept that we all know is true, but don’t always pay much attention to Read more

Let these impression quotes inspire you when you’re feeling discouraged, insecure, or self-conscious about your appearance or when you just need some encouragement to keep moving forward.

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We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves. Ashly Lorenzana
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I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people? Stacey T. Hunt
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I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative — the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things. Zack Love
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People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus – what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside. Larry Dossey
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Rich men use most of their money to get richer. Poor men use most of their money to look richer. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish. Dinaw Mengestu
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed. Robert Macfarlane
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Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too. Nema AlAraby
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires. Thomas Hardy
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I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours. Jesse Hajicek
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer