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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good. Kevin DeYoung
Yeah, ‘Mine’ was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics… from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn’t want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better. Bazzi
I just don’t go out of my way to impress anybody. You either appreciate me for who I am or you don’t. That’s just the way it is. I’m comfortable in my own skin. DeMarcus Cousins
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. Orison Swett Marden
We’re losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it. Gary Moore
We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, ‘Hey, stupid, that’s not right,’ and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. Dick Smothers
The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning. Hermann Ebbinghaus
I think humor is the best thing to impress a girl. Kelly Rohrbach
I’m not impressed by people’s degrees. Harvard doesn’t impress me, Yale doesn’t impress me, Columbia doesn’t impress me. Sean Hannity
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. Helena Blavatsky
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced. Hermann Ebbinghaus
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. Will Rogers
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. W. C. Fields
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. Zora Neale Hurston
If there is any message in the ‘Wimpy Kid’ books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction… Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I’m writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges. Jeff Kinney
I dread handshakes. I’ve got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. George Foreman
Don’t forget, I’m 39. I didn’t come here just for the money to impress myself. I’m not saying I am going to be dominating. I’m not saying I’m going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play. Jaromir Jagr
I think it is not easy to impress a girl, especially with the looks that I have. It is quite tough. Dhanush
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. Marie de France
I don’t ever want to be a person that I’m not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that’s the time when they lose themselves. Kate Upton
There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records? Ellie Goulding
I can’t impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies. Doug Liman
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace. Brennan Manning
When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Robert Greene
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. John Mayer
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Orson Welles
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time. Anthony Holden
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, ‘Right, you’re here for two weeks.’ What you’re doing is creating a siege mentality. Danny Boyle
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort. Henry Rollins
I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy. Lauren Alaina
I’m in love with the city. You can impress an Australian with a city, but you can’t impress them with a beach. Rose Byrne
Yale students want to impress you with what they’re doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it. Alexandra Petri
I collect art, and I drink wine… things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, ‘I’m going to buy art to impress this crowd.’ That’s just ridiculous to me. I don’t live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself? Jay-Z
We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them. Nobuo Uematsu
I don’t dress to impress; I’ve never been that person. Little Simz
If you don’t know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know. Bob Weinstein
The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. James Randolph Adams
If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. Noam Chomsky
Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings. Alex Pareene
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. Sidney Altman
But I think we’re also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They’ve seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There’s so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. Keanu Reeves
Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Robert Greene
You can’t go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It’s also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food. Al Roker
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. John Drinkwater
Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman. Stephen Moyer
How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it’s a digital slate I’m carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? James Wolcott
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content. Maria Sharapova
It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you. Mike Davidson
I was in New Zealand and met this girl. Her sister dared me to bungee jump, so I did! It was a spur-of-the-moment decision – I wanted to impress the girl, and it worked! We were in a relationship after that. Theo James
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor. Catherine Zeta-Jones
Don’t try to be anybody else, because that’s what I do. I do me. I’m not trying to impress anybody. I’m not trying to please my pastor at church. I’m not trying to even please my mom, to be honest. Anjelah Johnson
There was a cute girl on the crew that I was trying to impress during a very elaborate stunt. I winked at her and, when I started running, proceeded to lose my balance, fall, banged my knee, and ended up sprawled out 12 feet in the air. Simu Liu
It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it. John Cusack
Do not be taken in by ‘insiderisms.’ Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as ‘lede.’ Where they lede, do not follow. William Safire
Today, writers want to impress other writers. Paulo Coelho
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
The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you’re not, and you shouldn’t, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive. Aaron Patzer
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. Randy Pausch
You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all. Daniel Craig
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Marie Curie
You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress. LeBron James
I’m not trying to have no surgeries because I’m trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff. Shannon Sharpe
I am yet to have a child, and if I am blessed with a baby girl, and in future, if a guy tries to impress my daughter by singing my hits, I have no issues with it. Yo Yo Honey Singh
One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. C. Everett Koop
Everybody says, ‘You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.’ I say, ‘Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.’ Rip Torn
Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can’t go out trying to impress these people. Farah Khan
Don’t try to impress people. Always be yourself! Bella Thorne
If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world. Satoru Iwata
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. Olympia Brown
I’m not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn’t impress me when we can go to the moon. Alexandra Paul
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn’t impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father. Herb Ritts
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. Claude Debussy
I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter. Rose Byrne
When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle. Danica McKellar
I coach for my dad’s academy. Sometimes it’s just about being there – it’s not just the coaching – it’s seeing that you are there to inspire or they are trying to impress you. Moeen Ali
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. F. L. Lucas
The big thing for me is no longer is trying to impress people around me. Drew McIntyre
I took my wife to a really expensive hotel in Dubai. This was when we were first dating, so I wanted to impress her. I had scallops, and after that, I went to the bathroom to be sick. I realised I had just paid ?300 or ?400 on scallops just to throw it up. My wife and I then talked about it; I knew I had a problem. Andrew Flintoff
I feel like, when people realize that they are the only person they need to impress, everybody’s life will be a lot smoother. Megan Thee Stallion
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. Paul Arden
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof. J. K. Rowling
To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to. Tom Brady
I’ve reached a point in life where it’s no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that’s good. If they don’t, that’s too bad. Corazon Aquino
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. Aristotle
Labels don’t really impress, it’s the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. Bryan Batt
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous – or notorious – in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked ‘Hudson Hawk.’ Stephen Hunter
Mainly, I don’t like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn’t sound good to me. If you’re making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses… that’s not what I’m about. When somebody’s making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. John Frusciante
The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn’t fail to impress. Neha Sharma
One reason some people are long-winded is because they’re trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don’t actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed. Mark Goulston
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer. Dick Dale
If I don’t impress you in an interview then fine, but at least give me that chance. That’s all I want; to talk to a chairman or owner about my philosophy and what I can do for their team. Sol Campbell
I can’t remember ever cooking food to impress a woman. The idea’s quite cheesy and sort of makes my skin crawl. But I sometimes make a special effort to impress my cats, with chicken liver or something. It’s tricky to know if a cat’s impressed. They might give me a little look, a glimpse at least. That’s cat ownership for you. Bob Mortimer
I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style. Lindsey Wixson
I’ve only had success when I’m not trying to. It’s that weird thing where if you’re trying to impress a girl, you’re not going to impress her. But if you aren’t trying to impress a girl, you’ll probably impress her because you’re not trying. Mike Posner
I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again. Alan Ladd
I am who I am. I’m not going to go out of my way to impress anybody for a sponsorship. I’m not going to change who I am for a sponsorship. Brook Lopez
At the outset, I think that one should be natural, not just when it comes to writing but in every area of life. If you try to be something that you are not just to impress others, then it’s a rather sad life. Amish Tripathi
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. David Ogilvy
I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it. Shia LaBeouf
