Impression Formation Quotes

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

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

First impressions matter. Most people don't change their political views radically from the ones they first hold.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

It's not what's there that counts, it's what's projected and?it's not what he projects but rather what the voter receives? It's not the man we have to change, but rather the received impression.

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.

people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.

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

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

With me it's always about first impressions.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.