#impressions

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#colors #connection #consists #expressing #how

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#first-impressions #passion #change

We'd already talked in the stacks, and I knew you were different from any other girl I'd met. And you told me that your parents were dead, and I thought that you were so . . . lost and vulnerable. So when I saw you in the physics lab . . . and I saw you try and take care of someone that you thought who had been through what you'd been through; could be that . . . well, generous, and thoughtfull . . ." Guy said. "But you hardly knew me." said Willow "I know . . . I didn't know that we'd even talk again, or that if we did, if we'd get along, or maybe you were seeing someone else . . . I just knew that the way you tried to protect someone's life that, especially given your situation . . . I just . . . I though that you had to be the most special girl I would ever meet . . . ↗

— Julia Hoban

#sweet-talk #life

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#imprint #lasting #leave #oar #people

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#critical #entitled #epistles #essays #impressions

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#i #impressions #spontaneous

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#experiences #form #future #future life #gave

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#film #impressions #life #my life #part