Franz Kafka
Writer
"First impressions are always unreliable."
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Impression
125 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments."
Claude Monet
Painter
"A good impression is lost so quickly."
Claude Monet
Painter
"My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions."
John Dean
Politician
"History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions."
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"The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives."
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"You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make."
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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."
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"The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul."
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"The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects."
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"Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we're magicians."
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"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating."
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"The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things."
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"If there is no contradictory impression, there is nothing to awaken reflection"
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"One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him."
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"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression."
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"the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself."
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"There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity."
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"Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much."
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"The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile."
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"I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom."
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"I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them."
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"Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment."
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"My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience."
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"I insist upon 'doing it alone'... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions."
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