Desire To Impress Quotes

#1. The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one's least impressive qualities.

Derren Brown

#2. You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.

Debasish Mridha

#3. My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he was noble enough to want to make such a sacrifice from his heart rather than from his desire to impress me.

Jody Hedlund

#4. Do you know what is the most powerful force in a man's life?' asked Daksha. Kanakhala and Parvateshwar looked at Daksha nonplussed. 'It is his intense desire to impress the person he loves the most,

Amish Tripathi

#5. The creation of powerful magical tools, generally, is the result of one of three things: the desire to impress a lover; an accident while trying to create something else entirely; or a side project created to assist while working toward something considered more significant by the creator.

Steven Brust

#6. Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal!
to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others and achieve eminence ... Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements.

Hugh Nibley

#7. He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and form. No, the stranger moved with a languorous arrogance of a man more settled into his skin. A sort of graceful conceit that suggested entitlement.

Vivienne Lorret

#8. The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

Robert Ringer

#9. Three things to give up to be happier:
1. Never complain, condemn, or criticize.
2. Give up anger, fear, and resentment.
3. Give up the desire to impress and control others.

Debasish Mridha

#10. It is his intense desire to impress the person he loves most,

Amish Tripathi

#11. Karen led her guest into the kitchen where she'd laid the table with flowers and her prettiest stoneware in neat place settings amidst good coffee and cake smells, with a hope that now seemed transparent for its desire to impress with simplicity and goodness: a childlike tea party dream.

V.S. Kemanis

#12. Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

Thorstein Veblen

#13. I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was ... I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

Mariah Carey

#14. Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses.

Mizuho Kusanagi

#15. The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

Peter Diamandis

#16. A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

William Shakespeare

#17. It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.

Mortimer J. Adler

#18. The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

Eugene Habecker

#19. I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

John Cale

#20. I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

Miriam Makeba

#21. Good cheese needs good companions.

James Beard

#22. I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.

Rachel Kushner

#23. It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Orison Swett Marden

#24. The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

Joseph Conrad

#25. The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress.

David Blum

#26. Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#27. We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#28. It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

Pauline Kael