Quotes About First Impressions

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

You can't judge people for what you see for two seconds.

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

Airports say a lot about a place because they are both a city's business card and its handshake; they tell us what a community yearns to be as well as what it really is (much like the people inside them, often, who are dressed up for the occasion, and worn ragged and bare by the experience).

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

the packaging is more important than the content.

I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.

First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.

I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

I'm all about first impressions, so I love a guy who looks good and walks in with some confidence. That starts with a clean-shaven face and a great smile that'd I'd like to get close to.

You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.

I'll give the girl a few minutes of my time and then send her packing. We don't have a position for anyone with a college degree in music. Even if we did, I wouldn't hire Lauren Danner. I've never met a more irritating, outrageous, ill-mannered, homely child in my life.She was about nine years old, chubby, with freckles and a mop of reddish hair that looked as if it was never properly combed. She wore hideous horn-rimmed eyeglasses, and so help me God,that child looked down her nose at us ...

The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the kind of blue-eyed blondness that caused complete strangers to deduct IQ points and to speak to her slowly. Using really small words.

The sequence in which we observe characteristics of a person is often determined by chance. Sequence matters, however, because the halo effect increases the weight of first impressions, sometimes to the point that subsequent information is mostly wasted.

You should take more pride in your appearance," I tell him. "You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

Initiate a proper handshake and the whole world opens up for you

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.

Why did Juliet fall for Romeo? Well for one thing, with all due deference for Shakespeare, he happened to be the first man she had seen.