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311 Impressions quotes by 252 unique authors
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Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
— Steven Pinker
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
— Virginia Woolf
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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at…
— Robert Collier
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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
— Ramana Maharshi
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With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not…
— Thucydides
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One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by…
— Takuan Soho
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To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go…
— Simon Newcomb
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,…
— John Henry Newman
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Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a…
— Karl Lehmann
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain…
— Stephen Spender
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All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards…
— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
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Destiny is the result of all your actions and the impressions that you have taken in.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of…
— Justin Long
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I…
— Diet Eman
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IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this…
— Fritz Kreisler
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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons…
— Robert Hooke
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Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and…
— Orison Swett Marden
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In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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