Initial Impressions Quotes

When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.

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.

The first time I saw Pearl Jam, I thought Eddie Vedder had seen too many Jim Morrison videos, and I didn't like the music very much. But by the third album, I really liked them after all.

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

First feelings are always the most natural.

I went looking for some preliminary information, and very quickly was struck by the sort of way the surface-level knowledge about Zelda doesn't begin to describe the person that she really is. You know, I had come to the project with the idea that she was, you know, just F. Scott Fitzgerald's crazy, disruptive wife.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Firsts are best because they are beginnings

It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer.

You're never quite sure, when you first get something if you really have a sense of what an opportunity it is.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

Perception is a big thing in football and people need to be more careful about how they choose to perceive young players in the first instance.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

When a show starts out, you're immediately trying to identify your goodies and baddies, and trying to place people in your mind where you think they belong.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

With 'Puddle Cruiser,' the first 15 minutes are the weakest. When you're total unknowns and you have a weak opening, it's a real problem. At some screenings, we'd see the odd walkout before the movie even got going. But to counteract that, we'd do sketches before the show to introduce the film.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

With me it's always about first impressions.

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.