Quotes About First-impressions

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

I always start off being nice to anyone I first meet.

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.

Meet people properly: It all starts with the introduction

People who don't know me are so negative about me. When they finally meet me, they change that negative into a positive.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

And because he was nice in the beginning did not mean he was a good man.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.

I like men who confidently flirt with women they have just met.

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?

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.

Sometimes you can feel old-sweatshirt comfortable with someone you've just met and two-left-shoes awkward with people you've known for ages.

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?

She'd read somewhere that you only truly saw what someone looked like in the first few minutes of meeting them, that after then it was only an impression, coloured by what you thought of them. It

You have to look like you're a nice person in order for people to believe that you are a nice person. Scientific studies show that people will judge you literally within milliseconds of seeing you. Make them see what you want them to see.

If someone shows you the first time who they are, believe them.

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

How can you label someone before you even had a chance to meet and get to know that person?

People are like that, judging you before they know you.