List Of 49 First Impressions Quotes:
#1 Elliott Abrams
”First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.”
#2 Vincent D’Onofrio
”It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake.”
#3 Harvey Mackay
”You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.”
#4 Robert Cheeke
”Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.”
#5 Nas
”You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.”
#6 Edmond Mbiaka
“We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet.”
#7 Charles Webster Hawthorne
”Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.”
#8 Susanne Katherina Langer
”The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.”
#9 Natalie Massenet
”Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression – with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.”
#10 Franz Kafka
”First impressions are always unreliable.”
#11 Clive James
”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.”
#12 Colleen Atwood
”Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.”
#13 Billy Joel
”Move to California – my first impression of the Wild West.”
#14 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
”Never lose the first impression which has moved you.”
#15 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
”We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
#16 Drake
”I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It’s feeling like the second chance and it’s the first impression.”
#17 Dalai Lama
”Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.”
#18 Anton Chekhov
”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.”
#19 Oscar Wilde
”My first impressions of people are invariably right. right, people.”
#20 Arthur Schopenhauer
”It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”
#21 Sonya Parker
”Almost everyone will make a good first impression, but only a few will make a good lasting impression.”
#22 Mitch Miles
”Don’t second guess your professional first impression.”
#23 Mike Birbiglia
”I just don’t give off a great first impression.”
#24 Julian Castro
”It’s going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments.”
#25 Leo Tolstoy
”In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.”
#26 Pierre Bonnard
”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.”
#27 J. K. Rowling
”A good first impression can work wonders.”
#28 Lemony Snicket
”I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
#29 J.R. Rim
“Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.”
#30 Jordan Rodgers
”First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.”
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#31 Ann Brashares
”People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.”
#32 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.”
#33 Dennis Farina
”I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.”
#34 Malcolm Gladwell
”We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility.”
#35 Billy Zane
”With me it’s always about first impressions.”
#36 Rasheed Ogunlaru
“What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”
#37 A.D. Posey
“Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.”
#38 Natasha Trethewey
”When I write notes in my journal, I’m just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.”
#39 Malcolm Gladwell
“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.”
#40 Kristen Stewart
”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.”
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#41 Daniel Tosh
”You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.”
#42 Bill Kristol
”First impressions matter. Most people don’t change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.”
#43 Cynthia Ozick
”Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.”
#44 F. W. de Klerk
”I believe that first impressions are very important.”
#45 Will Rogers
”You never get a second chance to make a first impression.”
#46 P. J. O’Rourke
”A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you’ll never be forgiven if you don’t live up to it.”
#47 Charles R. Swindoll
”First impressions never have a second chance.”
#48 P. D. Ouspensky
”Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.”
#49 Lois McMaster Bujold
”A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.”
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