First Impression Quotes

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

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Basketball, Educational

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• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Lazy, Looks, Want

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• A good first impression can work wonders

  J. K. Rowling

  Firsts, Wonder, Impression

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

  Nas

  Lasts, Firsts, Chance

  Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

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• Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Time, Two, Firsts

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• First impressions never have a second chance.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Second Chance, Firsts, Chance

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

  Elliott Abrams

  Two, People, Matter

  "The Power of the First Impression". www.wsj.com. May 09, 2009.

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• 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

  Mean, Firsts, Environment

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• 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

  Philosophy, Mean, Medicine

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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

  RuPaul

  Important, Firsts, Damn

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• First impressions are always unreliable.

  Franz Kafka

  Firsts, Impression, Unreliable

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

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, Way

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

  Daniel Handler

  Firsts, Wrong Impression, Series Of Unfortunate Events

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, Series Of Unfortunate Events, www.ign.com. 1999.

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• Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Second Chance, Past, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, People, Looks

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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

  Harvey Mackay

  Hands, May, Firsts

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• 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

  People, Doe, Cost

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Jan 14, 2013

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• You know who makes a great first impression? Liars.

  Daniel Tosh

  Liars, Firsts, Knows

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

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Credit, Firsts, Should

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.250, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Advice, Firsts, Difficult

  R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 1: 1847-1894”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Firsts, Sometimes, Difficult

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• 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.

  Miranda July

  People, Important, Impression

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Reality, Firsts

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• 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

  Giving, Firsts, Fame

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, People, Firsts

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.46, Penguin

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