Aja Brown Quotes

You judge people as you meet them.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

We are all disposed to attribute to other's motives and views that we have entertained ourselves.

I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life.

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 can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

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

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.

I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward me. And I think that's very funny and very human. But it's also very unattractive.

In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world.

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

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