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How to use the word IMPRESS in a Sentence? Page #3

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Investors were awaiting further hints for direction and anticipating new stimulus from the government, they liquidated their positions as the GDP data failed to impress while domestic consumption showed no sign of improvement.

– Steven Leung

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Don't be desperate to make money instead find ways to earn it. If you wish to attract Lakshmidevi, first impress devi Sarasvati and the rest will be effortless. So seek knowledge and wisdom and MickeyMize your life. Share this with all to have a wisdom based society and evolve.

– Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
9 years ago

We understood that Urban Outfitters’ target market was young people and considered that using a noticeably underweight model was likely to impress upon that audience that the image was representative of the people who might wear Urban Outfitters’ clothing, and as being something to aspire to, we therefore concluded that the ad was irresponsible.

– The ASA

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You can impress people from a distance but you can impact them only up close.""The more sensitive you become toward sin, the more aware you'll be for the need of godliness and holiness.""The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.""You teach what you know but you reproduce what you are.""People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

– Howard Hendricks

added by anonymous
11 years ago

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.”

– Václav Havel

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

– Dale Carnegie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

– Henry Tuckerman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

– Zora Neale Hurston

added by anonymous
13 years ago

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

– William Hazlitt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

– Marie Curie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

– Mark S. Hertzog

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine.

– Henry Thomas Buckle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

– Lillian Eichler Watson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way.

– Imgard Schloegl

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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