“Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions… by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

“Combat leaves a lasting impression on men’s minds, changing them as radically as any crucial experience through which they live.”

“Nor less I deem that there are Powers
Which of themselves our minds impress;
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.”

“We must be ready to change our circumstances by changing our mindsets and sometimes, our environments.”

“At our first rehearsal, I remember our director telling me “You know, Steven… You don’t have to do a Gene Wilder impression.” I asked “Why not?!””

“Don't ever change yourself to impress someone. They should be impress that you don't change to please others”

“Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.”

“A good film is one that requires the viewer to create, through an orchestration of impressions, the meaning of its events. It is, in the end, our ability to create meaning out of the raw experience of life that makes us human. It is the exercise of our faculty to discover meaning which is the purpose of art. The didactic imparting of moral or political messages is emphatically not the purpose of art -- that is what we call propaganda.”

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”