Quotes About Impressing

#1. Honestly, the secret to impressing people is this: individual portions, packaged in mason jars. I

Becky Albertalli

#2. In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

Brad Paisley

#3. I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

Patricia Marx

#4. And when you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.

Amanda Palmer

#5. I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

Kara Hayward

#6. The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.

Marcel Duchamp

#7. A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

Derren Brown

#8. I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.

Christine Taylor

#9. The vast majority of sportsmen are left with little choice as regards how to play, serfs to their talent, but the very best are able to do so as they want, impressing personality upon ability.

Daniel Harris

#10. Go get him, tiger, I silently told him. Shouldn't you be working? he asked. Yes, I said frankly. But the world outside these walls is depressing, and I need the distraction. You may begin impressing me now.

Chloe Neill

#11. A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the
thing he thinks about to be created.

Wallace D. Wattles

#12. It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

Jim Rohn

#13. Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!

John Badham

#14. You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.

Mary J. Miller

#15. My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.

Alastair Reynolds

#16. No one cares about the art of the lie at this point. They insist on impressing with the truth. See me! Look at me! Look at who I am! Look at who I want you to think I am!

Leslie Pietrzyk

#17. Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Ina Garten

#18. She was anxious to be someone, and, no one having ever voiced a prejudice in her hearing without impressing her, had come to associate prejudice with identity. You could not be someone without disliking things.

Elizabeth Bowen

#19. All this impressing, talking, sitting, walking, and getting up together takes the investment of time. The day in and day out living the life of faith.

Jamerrill Stewart

#20. I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Dave Ramsey

#21. I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.

J. Lynn

#22. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

Pascal Mercier

#23. Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

Auliq Ice

#24. Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.

Vera Brosgol

#25. This is the moment - this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That's what our job is. It's not about impressing people. It's not about getting the next job. It's about contributing something.

Benjamin Zander

#26. If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling," Bly liked to say, "and not for the purpose of impressing fellow travelers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one.

Matthew Goodman

#27. We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.

Brene Brown

#28. Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.

Ryan Holiday

#29. A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

Julie Murphy

#30. Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

Joshua Harris

#31. It's all about impressing people.

Christine Taylor

#32. I've got to stop thinking about myself so much
about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#33. The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.

Leonardo Bianchi

#34. Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

Carl Orr

#35. Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

Marcella Hazan

#36. The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.

Kevin Hart

#37. Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

Helen Fisher

#38. In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Confucius

#39. Celebration is an act of impressing sadistic someone residing in you.

Santosh Kalwar

#40. What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

Eric Thomas

#41. Someone whose safety and happiness you put above all others. Even if that meant impressing her particularly stuffy family.

Chloe Neill

#42. Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the chain, it's not about the car, not about the house or this, that, and the other that you think are impressing me. It's really the intellect. It's really stimulating my mind.

Keri Hilson

#43. 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

#44. One becomes vulnerable when one stops to think about winning, losing, taking advantage, impressing or disregarding the opponent. When the mind stops, even for a single instant, the body freezes, and free, fluid movement is lost.

Kisshomaru Ueshiba

#45. 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

#46. So many guys try to show off to a girl by boasting of their financial assets and flashing their cash around etc, but a girl who makes her own money and is building her own empire is not impressed by such things. -Show me the integrity not the money.

Miya Yamanouchi