Impress – Quotes

My hunch is that

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. Evgeny Morozov

To impress me, a

To impress me, a guy has to be completely unaffected by my presence. If he wants to talk to me, talk to me; if he doesn’t, don’t. Evangeline Lilly

The true leader serves.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price. Eugene Habecker

Many an article that

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. Ernst Mach

It is by riding

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the … Read more

From the Latin word

From the Latin word imponere, base of the obsolete English impone and translated as impress in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined the terms imponator (a device that does nothing but impress bystanders, referred to as the imponator effect) and imponade (that goo that fills you as you get impressed with something – from marmelade, … Read more

They don’t make poles

They don’t make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don’t want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it’s not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up … Read more