top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare."
Standard
Customized
More
"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a very strange thing to see so many images in the world around us... we don't realise it, but we are all impressionable beings, able to pick up off of the images that bombard us on a daily basis. We are created and moulded by images and impressions. One of the most difficult tasks in life, is to keep a steady impression of something in your sight, and to believe in it until it becomes you. Because there is just so much temptation/opportunity, to become something else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion."
Dream
"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."
Religion
"I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey."
Sports
"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar."
Dieting
"My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons."
Ambition
"Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight."
Opportunity
"One half-conscious thought was burned in my mind: stay on your feet."
Thought
"In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively."
Life
"If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world."
Wisdom
"Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly."
Boxing
bottom of page