Quotes About Not Trying To Impress Others

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

Bethany Mota

#2. 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

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

Sophie Kinsella

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Jimmy Cannon

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Steve Pavlina

#16. He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

Elton John

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

Randy Pausch

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Demetri Martin

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

Auliq Ice

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Joshua Becker

#31. 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

#32. 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