Elliott Abrams Quotes

You judge someone from the day you meet them.

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

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.

My belief is you have one chance to make a first impression.

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

When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.

It is easier to treat people as objects to be manipulated if you have never learned any other way to see them.

I think it's very hard to shake what people first think of you straightaway.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

I tend to make snap judgements about people.

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

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.

I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.

When you have a label stuck on you, people tend to believe it. If someone calls you suave and debonair, you only get offered parts in a suit and a collar and tie. It just so happens I wear them reasonably well.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.

People make a mistake thinking that two people with identical mindset gel well.

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

Be completely honest - have you ever met someone who you thought was truly clever or interesting or witty who wore fawn?

I've been taught through life experience that, like, I'd better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don't, I will be defined.

I just like interacting with people.

I strongly believe that appearance is important, as it's the first impression you get, but that is definitely not the deciding factor.