Impress
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
To be impressed; to rest.
The act of impressing or making.
A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
A device. See Impresa.
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
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Impress Quotations
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith
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
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
Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.
David Ogilvy
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden
Impress Translations
impress in Dutch is indruk maken op, imponeren
impress in French is impressionner
impress in Italian is impressione, impressionare
impress in Latin is infigo
impress in Norwegian is preg, imponere, avtrykk, trykke, prege
impress in Portuguese is imprima
impress in Spanish is impresionar, impresion
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