Best 72 quotes in «first impression quotes» category

Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.

I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.

I hope this in some small part makes up for the terrible first impression. I would love to take you out for a drink sometime. I promise not to spill it on you.

We are constantly reminded about how short life is. Please try to leave your best positive impression on everyone that you meet.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

The good part about these areas that we were taking over, was that all of them had parks where a lot of guys were just hanging out playing basketball. So I used those parks to make a good first impression with my gun, then I followed up with a speech presentation. At the end of the day, we were able to win over the entire park, and eventually their community….. It was as if these fellas from different areas were just waiting for this, because no one else was going around to them. No one else was telling them that they were needed, only us. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

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

What do people see in me on the first impression? ... Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?

When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who didn’t know about the assigned seats. Sitting at my table was a girl in a long flowered dress, very vintage-hippie. She actually was wearing real flowers in her hair, and hardly any make up. I sat down, ready to explain to this poor lost soul that the seat was already taken, when I looked again and realized it was the same girl. I ended up not saying anything at all; I couldn’t think of anything that wouldn’t be rude or just plain stupid.

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.

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.

At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

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.

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.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

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.

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

First impressions are always unreliable.

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

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or 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.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

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.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

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

I just don't give off a great first impression.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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.

I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.

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

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.

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

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 right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel.

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.

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.

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.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

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.

Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

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.

Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.

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.