“There is truth and certainty in our first impressions. First impressions are natural monitors, and nature is a true guide.”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Yes, first impressions do count but every single impression counts.”
You cannot fake being positive, but you can practise and teach yourself to appear and act in a positive manner.
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.18
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX, 1
“It is sometimes difficult to get rid of first impressions.”
Withnell v. Gartham (1795), 6 T. R. 396.
“My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced.”
On a later meeting of Richard Francis Burton, on 8 February 1879, in, Vol. 1, p. 225
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907)
Context: My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced. He told us, amongst other things, of the work he had in hand. Three great books were partially done. The translation of the Arabian Nights, the metrical translation of Camoëns, and the Book of the Sword. These were all works of vast magnitude and requiring endless research. But he lived to complete them all.
“First impression only opens the door, but does not lock it.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125