Lou Holtz Quotes

Appearances do matter.

Outward appearances mean everything.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky 'Juno' lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

As a book is judged by its cover, so a fad is judged by its name.

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

People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.

Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who are serious. In politics, the rare candidate who is serious, like Adlai Stevenson, is easily overwhelmed by one who is solemn, like General Eisenhower. This is probably because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, especially in politics, but comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is as commonplace as jogging.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.