#impressive

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up. ↗

— P. D. James

#dries #first #gush #human #human kindness

They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#again #been #few #i #impressive

You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.' ↗

— Amy Tan

#critic #get #good #gosh #i

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#administration #change #days #drive #fear

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#haggard #i #i think #impressive #me

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ↗

— Judith Martin

#far #good #good qualities #help #impressive

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#being #dad #engineer #frivolous #had

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive. ↗

— Jon McGregor

#carry #creativity #dealing #energy #impressive

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#around #attacks #calm #center #certitude

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#form #i #impressive #me #most