Quotes About First Impressions

what were my impressions upon viewing for the first time the manor where you'd had me brought? My initial thought was "Toad Hall." This was, of course, an inadequate comparison but the best I could muster considering the limited number of books I'd read that centered on soaring Gothic structures. (As a boy, I went nine pages into The Hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing it wasn't a football story.)

The minute you meet some people you know you will hate their mothers.

Why, when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time, do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, and happily dismiss them?

When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.

He took one look at me and said, 'Damn, you cleaned up better than I thought you would.' (Grace) I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

I can't look at a stranger's face and think, She's smiling just like Amy. When Amy smiles like that she's happy, so this person is probably happy, too. Instead, I watch and evaluate, with a slightly anxious feeling. It's as if I have to build a behavior database for every single person I meet in life. When I encounter someone for the first time, the slate is blank and I don't know what to expect.

If I don't like a man's looks, depend upon it I shall never like HIM. I don't want to know people that look ugly and disagreeable, any more than I want to taste dishes that look disagreeable.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party.

I know a lot of people who thrive on self-tapes, but for me, it does come down to first impressions. I like to be in the room, I like to talk to the people I'm acting with.

If they don't see or hear something in the first minute (or first page) that earns their favorable attention; It's NEXT and they're on to something else.

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

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

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

Make sure your bathroom is clean. If you're having a girl over the house for the first time, make sure your toilet is clean, not disgusting. Guys' bathrooms are always the most disgusting thing.

There were some people you hated on sight, just as there were others you liked on sight.

Unlike world I don't judge the people from their first impression.

How you enter a space and how you leave a space is as important as what happens in the space.

We had all commenced that thrusting and parrying that always goes on when you meet new people. How I hated those games. I wondered if they went on forever. Did you ever grow up enough not to have to jockey for position? Could you ever just say, 'Hi, I'm Rachel Gold. I like to read and eat. Who are you?

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Shoes are everything. You can tell more about a man from his shoes than his handshake, because they tell where you're going.

So most girls I date - actually, all of them - say this. Every girl I end up dating, there's like a couple things. One, they hate me at first.

I hate a man who looks dirty.