First Impression Quotes - Page 2

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Encounters, Faces

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

  Daniel Handler

  May, Opinion, Changes Over Time

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Mind, Firsts

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

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• It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Mistake, Simple, People

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

  Frank Oz

  Firsts, Unfair, Guarded

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right.

  Clive James

  Giving, Might, Firsts

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• We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning.

  Gavin de Becker

  Inspirational, Children, Nice

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Firsts, Realizing, Impressionism

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• 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.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, Three

  "Ivanov". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Firsts, Moved, Loses

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• 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.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Firsts, Illusion

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.103, Macmillan

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

  Colleen Atwood

  Character, Costumes, Doe

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Passion, Men, Reflection

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.93, Vintage

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

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Sound, Firsts, Aphorism

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Passion, Care, Firsts

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.99, Hachette UK

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

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Marketing, Firsts

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Judging, Letters

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• With me it's always about first impressions.

  Billy Zane

  Firsts, Impression

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Dennis Farina

  Thinking, Important, Scripts

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• When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

  Brad Pitt

  Beautiful, Sex, Eye

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Giving, Firsts, Firm

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Hands, Years

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• 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.

  Catherine Taylor

  Looks, Firsts, Sometimes

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• You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Forever

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

  Billy Zane

  Trust, Character, Psychology

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