Top 562 Impressions Quotes & Sayings

Do you guys like impressions? "Why?" That was Socrates.

I love doing impressions.

When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

I don't do impressions.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

My daughter has impressions that she does of me.

During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we're asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke ... and take a look.

Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.

Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.

I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'

Everyone likes doing impressions of me. I'm easy.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

My first impressions of Mourinho were really positive.

Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

Even my great grand-mother did impressions.

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being to concepts pertaining to physical color, whereas the latter are prior in the order of knowing to concepts pertaining to visual impressions.

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

You collect impressions from people, from life, from your own daydreams.

One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

I'm known for impressions and family stories.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

First impressions never have a second chance.

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

I was so young but started having these visions and impressions of the world.

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That's one of my favorite things about Paul F. Tompkins' 'Dead Authors' podcast is to be able to do impressions of people you've never otherwise think to do or get to do. I did Walt Whitman on there, and that was really fun.

With me it's always about first impressions.

Even my great grand-mother did impressions

When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.

In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Im known for impressions and family stories.

First impressions are always unreliable.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

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.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

I can't do impressions.

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.