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Quotes About First impression

She was standing before a fine portrait of the old gentleman when the door opened again, and, without turning, she said decidedly, 'I'm sure now that I shouldn't be afraid of him, for he's got kind eyes, though his mouth is grim, and he looks as if he had a tremendous will of his own. He isn't as handsome as my grandfather, but I like him.' 'Thank you, ma'am,' said a gruff voice behind her, and there, to her great dismay, stood old Mr. Laurence.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago. The other places don't count. Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages
~ Rudyard Kipling
Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me.
~ Alexandre Dumas
For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.
~ Alice Hoffman
W ?wiecie biznesu korzystne pierwsze wra?enie jest jak mi?o?? od pierwszego wejrzenia.
~ Allan Pease
I'm tempted to say this is no place for a lady like you." "We've only just met. You really have no idea what kind of lady I am. Why, you could be taking your life in your hands just talking to me.
~ Joe Abercrombie
La prima impressione ci trova ben disposti, e l'uomo è fatto in modo che gli si possono far credere le storie più avventurose; ma queste si imprimono subito così tenacemente che guai a chi voglia rimuoverle o cancellarle!
~ Johann Wolfgang Goethe
I find by this, how much an author injures his works by altering them, even though they be improved in a poetical point of view. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your first judgement of a person should never be your last.
~ Anonymous D
My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
~ Katharine Viner
The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.
~ Franz Kafka
When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, 'I want to see how he shoots.'
~ Kemp Muhl
The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
~ Mickey Drexler
The best investment you can make is your skin. It's really the first thing people see.
~ Candace Cameron Bure
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
~ Gail Sheehy
The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.
~ Ali Fazal
In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
~ Om Puri
My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.
~ Rory Bremner
this wasn't about something really obvious, such as skin color or age or height or weight. It was just about hair. Something about the first impression created by my hair derailed every other consideration in the hunt for the rapist.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you'd see
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me.
~ Anais Nin
Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.
~ Andy Warhol