Not Trying To Impress Quotes

#1. It's not about fancy literary prizes. It's not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that's all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

Heather Morris

#3. I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Bethany Mota

#4. One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Dale Carnegie

#5. This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them.

Steve Wynn

#6. Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

Matisyahu

#7. 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

#8. We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied.

George Harrison

#9. There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills - which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.

Richelle Mead

#10. Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Salma Hayek

#11. The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Denis Waitley

#12. Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

Tom Brady

#13. Trying to impress her with the most interesting thing you can say will only make you look desperate and keep you awkwardly in your head

Nick Sparks

#14. The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

Joni Mitchell

#15. What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

Aaron Karo

#16. I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

Tim Duncan

#17. It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Rich Mullins

#18. I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

Rose Byrne

#19. Never stop trying to impress your partner. If you can both stay in that place, when you really want to show the best of yourselves to each other, relationships can become such a powerful team.

Matthew Hussey

#20. I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

Kate Upton

#21. Life is not about how much money is spent trying to impress the opposite sex, it's about finding balance and respect.

Jes Fuhrmann

#22. Why the hell did she have to look like a centerfold piece for Maxim magazine? Who was she trying to impress? She already had him: hook, line, and sinker.

Em Wolf

#23. Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech

Ethan Day

#24. I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me.

David Haye

#25. What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?"
"Shit," the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.
"That wouldn't impress anyone at the patent office.

Lindsay Buroker

#26. I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Shia Labeouf

#27. The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

Mark Goulston

#28. Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. Trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

Marissa Meyer

#29. I'm glad I'm not a woman trying to impress the opposite sex, Luke grunted. Kate shot him a quizzical look. Luke responded with one of his incongruous grins.

Maggie Brendan

#30. Keep a vigil on those who push you down always and leave them alone. Stay away from them so that you don't waste your precious time refuting them, trying to impress them or proving your point to them. Let them not occupy any free space in your mind.

Sanchita Pandey

#31. To be able to impress, you have to get to this middle ground where you're not too advanced so it goes over people's heads, and you're not too minimalist where people think you're just trying to rob the game and not stretch out.

DJ Quik

#32. How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty?

James Wolcott

#33. The kingdom belongs to people who aren't trying to look good or impress anybody, even themselves. They are not plotting how they can call attention to themselves, worrying about how their actions will be interpreted or wondering if they will get gold stars for their behavior.

Brennan Manning

#34. When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

Andrew Flintoff

#35. I'm not trying to put on airs for anybody. I'm only trying to impress myself by doing the best job I can do.

Matthew McConaughey

#36. There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

Ellie Goulding

#37. We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

Sophie Kinsella

#38. A vast sector of modern advertising ... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress its objects emotionally and then make them submit intellectually.

Erich Fromm

#39. Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."

Elizabeth Gilbert

#40. Stop trying to impress others with your stuff and start trying to impress them with your life.

Joshua Becker

#41. When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

#42. I don't know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.

Sharon Sant

#43. To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

Tom Brady

#44. Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins

#45. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Dale Carnegie

#46. Don't waste your life trying to impress other people. Do what you love, love what you do.

Auliq Ice

#47. If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

Demetri Martin

#48. He tried to make it seem that he had stopped for some dirty talk and to savor the moment, but Anne knew that he was temporarily out of breath, that he'd started out too fast, trying to impress her.

Elliot Mabeuse

#49. Who are you trying to impress? You're twisting yourself into knots trying to fit in with this crowd. It isn't worth it.

Stephanie Clifford

#50. Just pay close attention to what excites you and what drains you. Pay close attention to when you're being the real you and when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Derek Sivers

#51. It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

John Cusack

#52. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness in stories to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.

David Levithan

#53. Don't worry about trying to impress people ... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.

Hal Elrod

#54. Imagine that we're new and you're trying to impress me, because at the rate you're going, soon that will become someone else's right.

Crystal Woods

#55. When we get rid of our ego, we stop doing things to impress others, we stop trying to cling to the idea of ourselves and we realize that we are a part of the natural world. This realization will give us the perspective that is greatly needed to improve the state of our society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#56. Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.

Dan John

#57. Why am I writing books in my old age? Who am I trying to impress? Why go on? the answer is fear of golf.

David Taylor

#58. That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

Patry Francis

#59. I suspect guys who say, "I just send out for a sandwich for lunch," as lazy men trying to impress me.

Jimmy Cannon

#60. I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

Ann Patchett

#61. If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Taylor Lautner

#62. I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or when someone is just trying to impress me.

Adriana Lima

#63. You were trying to impress her with a story about getting mauled by a thresher?"
"It made sense at the time."
"Ah, youth." He sighed. "Do you know what I would give to be young again?"
"No, what?"
"Nothing. In fact, you'd have to pay me.

Jon Skovron

#64. If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

Steve Pavlina

#65. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

Randy Pausch

#66. Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.

Brennan Manning

#67. If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

Rick Warren

#68. We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Dick Smothers