First Impression Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

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.

With me it's always about first impressions.

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

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

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.

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

Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.

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

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...

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

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.

You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first 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.

First impressions are always unreliable.

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.

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

Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.

A good first impression can work wonders

It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

First impressions never have a second chance.

A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

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