Impression Quotes

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. View quote
George Boole
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. View quote
Edward Hopper
Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. View quote
Camille Pissarro
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, 'Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.' View quote
Epictetus
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. (Jim Carrey)
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. View quote
Henri Poincaré
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them. View quote
Pierre Loti
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. View quote
Hermann Broch
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. View quote
Charles Cooley
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control. View quote
Jeffrey Gitomer
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. View quote
Dalai Lama
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come . . . (George Eliot)
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I couldn't portray a women in all her natural loveliness.. ..I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute, not merely the factitious woman. View quote
Georges Braque
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing. View quote
Arnold Schoenberg
An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art. View quote
Arnold Schoenberg