First Impression Quotes & Sayings | Power of First Impressions

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
– Elliott Abrams

First impressions are key,if you give me a bad first impression I probably will have that idea of you forever honestly.

First impressions are the most lasting.

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

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
– Cynthia Ozick

You never get a second chance to make a first impression!

I hate when people judge on peoples first impression or looks.

A good first impression can work wonders
– J. K. Rowling

You better take advice. Never trust first impressions.
– Michael Jackson

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

Your first impression of someone is usually an accurate impression. Try to remember that.

I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.
– Daniel Handler

Almost everyone will make a good first impression, but only a few will make a good lasting impression.
– Sonya Parker

First impressions are whack because depending on how comfortable I was when I met them there are people out there who actually think I’m shy & others who are like she has never shut up a single second in her life.
– Ellie Schnitt

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
– Arthur Schopenhauer

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
– Susanne Katherina Langer

One never gets a chance to make a first impression. But remember that the first impression is not the last chance to make a good impression.

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

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
– Daniel Handler

First impressions never have a second chance.
– Charles R. Swindoll

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
– Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don’t know the person.
– Frank Oz

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man’s look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
– William Hazlitt

I try not to make a good first impression because for me that’s the same thing as lying.

Don’t second guess your professional first impression.
– Mitch Miles

For me it’s always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it’s something that requires training. But I don’t like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
– Billy Zane

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.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First impressions are always unreliable.
– Franz Kafka

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

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
– Harvey Mackay

First feelings are always the most natural.
– Louis XIV

It’s pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people’s first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
– Vincent D’Onofrio

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
– Dalai Lama

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

Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.
– Robert Cheeke

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.
– Malcolm Gladwell

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.
– Daniel Tosh

We don’t know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don’t always appreciate their fragility.
– Malcolm Gladwell

You never get a second chance to not give a crap about making a good first impression.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.
– Ann Brashares

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.

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.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Gemini can seem to be difficult to approach, but once you get to know them, they are very different from their first impression.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
– P. D. Ouspensky

There’s no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they’ll probably Google you. It’s a shame – people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I’m angry about something, I’m not going to take to my Twitter.
– Patrick Stump

Want to make a good first impression on a guy? Ask questions about him, seem interested, listen, giggle and swallow.

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.

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.
– Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

In life you never get a second chance to make a first impression and with a Taurus you might not even get a first chance.

With me it’s always about first impressions.
– Billy Zane

It’s not what you wear, it’s how you present yourself that determines what your first impression will be.

I just don’t give off a great first impression.
– Mike Birbiglia

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do …
– Katherine Anne Porter

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.
– Andrew Crumey

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.
– Sherrilyn Kenyon

My sister is about to have a baby and my brother showed up to the hospital in a suit because “first impressions matter”.

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