Quotes About Impression

If you see yourself as an object, then others will too. An ethereal, dreamlike air will heighten the effect.

You are a blank screen. Float through life noncommittally and people will want to seize you and consume you. Of all the parts of your body that draw this fetishistic attention, the strongest is the face; so learn to tune your face like an instrument, making it radiate a fascinating vagueness for effect.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

Understand: people will tend to judge you based on your outward appearance. If you are not careful and simply assume that it is best to be yourself, they will begin to ascribe to you all kinds of qualities that have little to do with who you are but correspond to what they want to see.

Muéstrate abierto a la influencia de los demás, y caerán más fácilmente bajo tu hechizo.

The recreation of yourself in the eyes of others is a powerful process that must not be left to chance.

Una superficie brillante puede tener encanto decorativo, pero lo que te hace voltear a ver un cuadro es la profundidad de campo, una ambigüedad inexpresable, una complejidad surreal.

Primero, debes tener una presencia tan desbordante que llene la mente de tu objetivo como un close-up llena la pantalla. Debes poseer un estilo o presencia que te distinga de los demás. Sé vago e irreal, pero no distante ni ausente: no se trata de que las personas no puedan contemplarte ni recordarte. Tienen que verte en su mente cuando no estás con ellas.

Segundo, cultiva un rostro inexpresivo y misterioso, el centro que irradia tu estelaridad. Esto le permitirá a la gente ver en ti lo que quiere, imaginar que puede advertir tu carácter, y aun tu alma. En vez de indicar estados anímicos y emociones, en vez de emocionar o exaltar, la estrella despierta interpretaciones. Una estrella debe sobresalir

When you no longer surprise anyone, you give others the impression that they have found you out. Turn the tables: be deliberately unpredictable.

Keep in mind, however, that people are in a state of continual flux. You must not let your ideas about them harden into a set impression. You are continually observing them and bringing your readings of them up to date.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

En todas las esferas de la vida, nunca des la impresión de que buscas algo; esto producirá una resistencia que nunca someterás.

When you go into society, leave behind your own ideas and values, and put on the mask that is most appropriate for the group in which you find yourself.

who had the advantage of seeming to be an American without the disadvantage of actually being one; and Adeyemi

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.

How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world.

In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for...Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people's impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations.

It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.

People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.

If you dress or look in ways that scream "jerk", "douchebag" or "terrorist", don't expect to enjoy meaningful social interactions on a regular basis, buddy! Now

Augen sind Hände, die man lebenslang nicht wäscht; so behalten sie die schmutzige Gewohnheit, alles anzurühren.

a face more suited for making book than selling books.