Quotes and Sayings About First Impression
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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 ZaneSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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.
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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 PissarroSource : "Painting Outside the lines, Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art". Book edited by David W. Galenson, pp. 84-85, note 40, 2009.
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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 HawthorneSource : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
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Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.
-- Colleen AtwoodSource : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
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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.
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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 AbramsSource : "The Power of the First Impression". www.wsj.com. May 09, 2009.
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First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.
-- Frank OzSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.
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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 KawasakiSource : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Jan 14, 2013
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Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
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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 ConstableSource : John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics
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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 PorterSource : Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.250, Atlantic Monthly Press
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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 SearcySource : Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com