Best Impressions Wisdom
311 Impressions quotes by 252 unique authors
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What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of…
— Max Planck
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My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of…
— H P Lovecraft
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
— St. Jerome
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Nothing can be done well at a speed of forty miles a day. The multitude of mixed, novel impressions rapidly piled on one another make…
— John Muir
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The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him…
— Mike Harding
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An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out…
— Ben Ames Williams
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There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.
— Dan Castellaneta
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Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It…
— Saul Bellow
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
— Margaret Fuller
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to…
— Emma Goldman
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own…
— George Eliot
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Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
— George Eliot
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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the…
— Arne Jacobsen
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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
— Daniel Kahneman
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When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's…
— Artie Lange
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.…
— A J Liebling
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I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.
— Norm MacDonald
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
— Gustav Mahler
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I…
— Edvard Munch
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