First Impression quotes
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The first impression of a new subject is not necessary the best. Seen from a different angle or under different condition it might look even better. Always study a three - dimensional subject with one eye closed.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
-- Andy Garcia -
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
-- Ann Brashares -
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
-- Anton Chekhov -
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With me it's always about first impressions.
-- Billy Zane -
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
-- Boris Kodjoe -
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
-- Camille Pissarro -
Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
-- Camille Pissarro -
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Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
-- Colleen Atwood -
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.
-- Dave Mustaine -
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I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
-- Dennis Farina -
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
-- Elliott Abrams -
First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.
-- Frank Oz -
First impressions are always unreliable.
-- Franz Kafka -
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If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
-- Guy Kawasaki -
Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
-- Hunter Hayes -
Never lose the first impression which has moved you.
-- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot -
Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.
-- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot -
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The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.
-- Jesse Eisenberg -
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.
-- John Constable -
My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.
-- John Newbery -
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
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First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...
-- Katherine Anne Porter -
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
-- Kristen Stewart -
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
I just don't give off a great first impression.
-- Mike Birbiglia -
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
-- Natalie Massenet -
Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.
-- Nelson Searcy -
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
-- P.D. Ouspensky -
For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind
-- Paul Klee -
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What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.
-- Pierre Bonnard -
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
-- Willem Dafoe -
Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.
-- Catherine Taylor -
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I always have to have a fragrance on. I have to wear a fragrance before I go anywhere. For me, scent is everything. It's a first impression. I love it when people tell me I'm smelling good and ask what I'm wearing. For me, it gives me that extra confidence and makes me feel grown.
-- Karrueche Tran -
I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.
-- Mordicai Gerstein -
My first impression was that this guy [Ndamukong Suh] is very confident. For him to be so young, I was kind of caught off guard by how confident he was. But then my first time seeing him on the field, pretty much solidified why he was so confident. He's obviously a monster.
-- Nate Burleson -
A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.
-- Elizabeth Holmes -
I think that rather being overly-friendly at first, having a cold first impression and slowly making them realize that I'm not that cold is better.
-- Jessica Jung -
The old aphorisms are basically sound. First impressions are lasting.
-- Jessie Redmon Fauset
