Good First Impression Sayings

#1. If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Harvey MacKay

#3. My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. I wanted to make a good first impression with these girls - and a good second impression with one - and apparently I was convinced this all hung on picking out the right tie. I sighed. These girls were already turning me into a puddle of stupid.

Kiera Cass

#6. A good first impression can work wonders

J.K. Rowling

#7. I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Alexander Lukashenko

#8. Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#9. What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. God break me out of this stiff life I've made

Jean Valentine

#11. This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

Rachel Caine

#12. I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

Jane Green

#13. I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

Dave Gibbons

#14. My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

Naima Adedapo

#15. When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had. (on her first impression of husband, Nathan Larson)

Nina Persson

#16. The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. People in both parties are restless for change, ready to break free of old patterns in Washington.

Mike Pence

#18. Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

Nicholas Sparks

#19. I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

Omari Hardwick

#20. You Never Have a Second Chance for a First Good Impression

Doris-Maria Heilmann

#21. Love everyone. Good people create an impression and not so good people teach you a lesson.

Debasish Mridha

#22. She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

Ann Brashares

#23. People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard.

Dee Dee Myers

#24. I'm not saying I'm a family guy, but maybe that's what people see in me: some kind of paternal quality.

Joel Edgerton

#25. A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

Leonard Slatkin

#26. If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

Daniel Kahneman

#27. I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

Andre Benjamin

#28. And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.

Mike Birbiglia