Impression Formation Quotes & Sayings

The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish. — Garth Stein

The fingers of his free hand work their way into my hair and tilt my head to the side as he deepens the kiss. He gets more aggressive, like he wants to gobble me up. And I want him to. God, I want him to. — M. Leighton

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous. — Nicholas Stern

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride — Karen Horney

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow. — Stonewall Jackson

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. — Matthew Arnold

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking! — Patricia Sun

Amos and I called our first joint article "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers." We explained, tongue-in-cheek, that "intuitions about random sampling appear to satisfy the law of small numbers, which asserts that the law of large numbers applies to small numbers as well." We also included a strongly worded recommendation that researchers regard their "statistical intuitions with proper suspicion and replace impression formation by computation whenever possible. — Daniel Kahneman

It was so easy to sell anything to the common people, if one could add an element of magic and some religion into it — Anand Neelakantan

Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab. — Terry Pratchett

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male. — Sarah MacLean

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all. — Josephine Tey

Typology acknowledges the factuality of the past event and presupposes a genuine correspondence between the saving and judging activity of God in the past and the present. It is based not on superficial resemblances but on the consistency of the divine action within the frame of reference established by revelation. — Anonymous

I've found I can always manage to run for my life. I just need to know which direction to run in. — Jodi Baker

Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'. — Fennel Hudson

Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time. — David Chiles