I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.

— Zack Love

Imagination is a holy impression.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

— Jesse Hajicek

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

— Israelmore Ayivor

I remembered Grandmas Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.

— V.C. Andrews

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. Furthermore, we know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.

— Robert G. Ingersoll

It is a very strange thing to see so many images in the world around us... we don't realize it, but we are all impressionable beings, able to pick up off of the images that bombard us on a daily basis. We are created and molded by images and impressions. One of the most difficult tasks in life, is to keep a steady impression of something in your sight, and to believe in it until it becomes you. Because there is just so much temptation/opportunity, to become something else.

— C. JoyBell C.

It may not be fair that people make judgments so quickly, usually within a few seconds of observation, but it's unrealistic to expect that they won't. So, if you want to be judged in a certain manner, be sure that your look and demeanor give that impression.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Just as Jesus predicted, what originates in the secret place won't always remain a secret. ... How do we guard -- or maybe it would be more appropriate to say, guard against -- our hearts? How do we monitor what's going on in that secret place that has the potential to go public at any moment?

— Andy Stanley

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.

— Nema Al-Araby