Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.
I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.
Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.
I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.
First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.
What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.
good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.
A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show.
[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.
We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.
The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
I want to reach back to when R&B meant something, to when it made impressions on people.
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.
A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.
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