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"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. "
— Jim Henson

tags: goodness, impression

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"Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions."
— Malcolm Gladwell

tags: experience, first, impression, intuition, nature, nurture, thin-slicing, vs-

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"There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them."
— Louise Dickinson Rich

tags: balance, humor, impression

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"Here too it’s masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show…
I’d gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: comfort, fake, false, illusion, impression, mask

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"Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one . . . knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either."
— Josh Weil (The New Valley)

tags: character, first, impression

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