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Tag Name "Impressing" (22)

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Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.
Vera Brosgol
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A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people, he explains. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.
Derren Brown
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Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself.
Ignatius of Antioch
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It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.
Jim Rohn
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The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.
Leonardo Bianchi
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I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.
Marco Pierre White
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That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?
Pascal Mercier
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Ordinary fools are all right you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Richard P. Feynman
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When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
Amanda Palmer
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In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
Brad Paisley
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I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
Christine Taylor
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Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Helen Fisher
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Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten
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The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
Kevin Hart
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Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.
Marcella Hazan
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You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.
Mary J. Miller
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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
Rene Descartes
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Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.
Roger Ebert
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A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
Wallace D. Wattles
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This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
Benjamin Zander
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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Carl Orr
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I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
Dave Ramsey