First Impression Quotes

I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

First impressions are always unreliable.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

A good first impression can work wonders

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

With me it's always about first impressions.

My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

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.

Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.