In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.
Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.
Forget impressing the girl, just do it for yourself!
The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It's all religious performance, and God isn't impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.
I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.
That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?
What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.
I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that.
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with witcleverness often feels like what it is - authorial intrusion.
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
