First impressions are the most lasting…
- A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. ~ Henri Matisse
- As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. ~ Wdmond and Jules De Goncourt
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ~ Marcus Aurelius
- Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. ~ Olga Korbut
- First impressions are often the truest. ~ William Hazlitt
- If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. ~ Rami Belson
- Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. ~ George Eliot
- Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself — forget about the impression you are trying to make. ~ Dale Carnegie
- Only the really plain people know about love — the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents. ~ Katharine Hepburn
- Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. ~ Oscar Wilde
- The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. ~ Robert Frost
- The concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it. ~ Albert Einstein
- The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. ~ Marie De France
- The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression. ~ Samuel Johnson
- The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. ~ Sigmund Freud
- 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 impressions. ~ George Eliot
- The mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself. ~ Frances Wright
- The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ~ Howard Pyle
- The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed. ~ Frank Romer
- The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws. ~ Remy De Gourmont
- The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ~ John Ruskin
- 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 are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. ~ Goethe
- There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ~ Kate Chopin
- There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ~ Marquis De Sade
- To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. ~ Horace
- You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which “clicks.” ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
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