Jessica Jung
Singer
"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."
First Impression quotes
First Impression
72 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"First impressions are always unreliable."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"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."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."
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"Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly."
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"A good first impression can work wonders"
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"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."
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"Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving."
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"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."
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"The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people."
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"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
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"In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions."
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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."
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"First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person."
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"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."
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"I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should."
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