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Quotes About First Impressions

Vocabulary ?????? hajimemashite nice to meet you
~ Robert Anderson
Example sentence ????????????????????? Konnichiwa, hajimemashite, watashi wa Jon desu. Hello. Nice to meet you. I am John.
~ Robert Anderson
The house I got them spotted for looks really great after they've first looked at a couple of dumps.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Hi, I'm Day. Hi, I'm June.
~ Marie Lu, Champion
She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
~ Aidan Chambers
He smiles at me, and for the first time I notice how blue his eyes are- like, bright-shy blue.
~ Jennifer Niven
I've only just met you and already I love you.
~ Jenny Han
He cut himself off and looked away, dragging a hand through his hair. "I just met her," he muttered to himself. "I'll no' say that ." "Cut the crap," Megan said. "Zachary Moore, this is Aura Salvatore, and yes, she's into science even though she's pretty. Shocker. Get over it." She turned to me. "Show him how you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Do you always introduce yourself by insulting people?
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
People judge you really quickly, at first just on your facial features. There are two dimensions - warmth and competence. You can think of them as trustworthiness and strength. They're first judging you on warmth; evaluating whether or not you are trustworthy. That's much more important to them than whether or not you're competent.
~ Amy Cuddy
I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert on them. I've seen them once.
~ Chris Lilley
Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.
~ Robert Harling
What if the wrong person showed up first and said you were expecting them?' I said. 'I told them middling tall, skinny, weird-looking hair because it will have just been let out of being tied up in a scarf for working in a restaurant and you never comb it, wearing a fierce look,' said Pat. 'I was pretty safe.' 'Fierce?' I said. I also thought, Skinny?, but I have my pride. The part about my hair is true.
~ Robin McKinley
Tis with governments as with individuals, first impressions and early habits give a lasting bias to the temper and character.
~ Ron Chernow
In der Studienzeit lernten wir uns kennen, sie fiel jedem auf mit ihren langen, leuchtend blonden, dicken Haaren, von hinten war sie schöner als von vorn. Angelika.
~ Doris Dörrie
Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you'll run into and it's always smart to look your best.
~ Joanne Fluke
When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.
~ Sigmar Polke
When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.
~ Trace Cyrus
When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his 'social identity' - to use a term that is better than 'social status' because personal attributes such as 'honesty' are involved, as well as structural ones, like 'occupation.'
~ Erving Goffman
I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.
~ Lisa Lutz
Washington went on to say that this mighty blaze "ought to be under the guidance of reason, for although we cannot avoid first impressions, we may assuredly place them under guard.
~ Ron Chernow
Dicen que sólo necesitamos siete segundos para hacernos un primer bosquejo de la persona, y un minuto y medio para comunicarnos. Y una mierda. Ese es el tiempo que necesitamos para empezar a inventarnos al otro, en todo caso.
~ Rosa Montero
Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one "date"…
~ Rowena Cherry
Gently, said the troop horse. Remember they are always like this to begin with. The first time I ever saw a man, I ran for half a day, and if I'd seen a camel, I should have been running still
~ Rudyard Kipling