Impress quotes
60 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person."
"If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good"
"Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge."
"You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody."
"The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love."
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"The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like."
"We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied."
"Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a 'me too' attitude while impressing evokes a 'so what' attitude"
"Today, writers want to impress other writers."
"If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation."
"Don't spend money that you don't have to impress people that you don't like"
"Novelties please less than they impress."
"The same facts impress us differently."
"So what do you think you're Elvis or something, whatever that don't impress me."
"Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations."
"A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing."
"Women love to impress and be their best."
