Quotes of Impressed - somelinesforyou

“ I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas. ”

- Ken Mason

“ Yes, Elgar is a great man. I listened in on his Birthday and was greatly impressed both with his wonderful idiom and his own wonderful vitality in conducting the whole of the long programme. ”

- Edward German

“ You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. ”

- John H. Holcomb

“ I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention… Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ I'm not favorably impressed by the atmosphere of a political convention. I think it's not the biggest show on earth. I don't think it should be like a Barnum and Bailey or Ringling Brothers Circus. ”

- David Bruce

“ Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people. ”

- Graham Chapman

“ We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. ”

- Aristotle

“ I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do. ”

- Shuler Hensley

“ What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts, stamped, imprinted, eternally seen. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. ”

- Ellen Goodman

“ But how shall I get ideas? "Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind — Act! ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ I cannot say that I am the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources. The great issue is what are you going to do with all these things? ”

- Thomas H. Huxley

“ I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ”

- Russell C. Taylor

“ I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. ”

- Michael Douglas

“ In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. ”

- Dorothy Dix

“ The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed. ”

- Frank Romer

“ In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. ”

- Dorothea Dix

“ You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence. Even in the freest countries our property is subject to the control and disposal of our partners, to whom the laws have given a sovereign authority… ”

- Abigail Adams

“ September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. ”

- Bill Frist

“ Quite honestly, I didn't think the deal was going to make, because I wanted part of the creative control. I was impressed that they were making an offer to a non-athlete young black male to be a spokesperson for two and a half years. To their credit, they said, absolutely yes, they never questioned anything I wanted to do. ”

- Orlando Jones

“ Marilyn Monroe's breasts were not big, Jayne Mansfield was big, but not by today's standards. She made the most of what she had. She pulled her stomach in and used those built-up bras. I appreciate a balanced body, a wasp waist, full hips and breasts… ”

- Anton LaVey

“ We got a good look at the Himalayas, which they tell me are about 28,000 feet high. I expected to be very impressed, but really, they didn't look any more picturesque to me than the Berkshires or the Green Mountains. Certainly not as pleasant-looking as the wooded mountains we have in New England… ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind… ”

- Jules Verne

“ The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ We tell ourselves so many lies and half-truths…We listen and are duly impressed by these inner voices that turn into unseen judges that nag at us. We give each of these judges a seat of honor in our minds, all the while hating their guts and their never-ending supply of judgements…We give the judges permission to accompany us on each journey of life, never daring to realize that we can park them, at least momentarily. ”

- Eloise Ristad

“ In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness… ”

- Carl Jung

“ Quotation … A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read… ”

- Henry W. Fowler
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