Good First Impression Quotes

• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Basketball, Educational

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• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, People, First Impression

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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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, First Impression, Firsts

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

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• A good first impression can work wonders

  J. K. Rowling

  First Impression, Firsts, Wonder

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• 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.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, First Impression, Doe

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Jan 14, 2013

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Hands, First Impression, May

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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, First Impression, Firsts

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

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• Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Mean, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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