When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. 11/16/2025
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. 11/16/2025
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression – with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing. 11/16/2025
Whenever we have something that we are good at–something we care about–that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions. 11/16/2025
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection. 11/16/2025
Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. 11/16/2025
My theory about meeting people,’ he said,’is that it’s better not to make a really good first impression. Because it’s all downhill from there. You’re always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. 11/16/2025
In the movies first impressions are everything. Or, to put it less drastically, in the movies there are no later impressions without a first impression, because you will have stopped watching. Sometimes a critic persuades you to give an unpromising-looking movie a chance, but the movie had better convey the impression pretty quickly that the critic might be right. 11/16/2025
First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don’t know the person. 11/16/2025
It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake. 11/16/2025
The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. 11/16/2025
People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
People tend to hold on to their first impressions – that’s why those first descriptions can be so important. You don’t even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression. 11/16/2025
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
Sometimes people can’t see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression. 11/16/2025
It’s important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave. 11/16/2025
We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. 11/16/2025
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. 11/16/2025
Fighting Chance is exceptionally well written, organized and presented.Based on a true story, Fighting Chance is written by Alicia Doyle, an award-winning journalist who discovered boxing at age twenty-eight in the late 1990s when she went on assignment at a boxing gym for at-risk youth called Kid Gloves… 11/15/2025
