Bad First Impression Quotes & Sayings

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression. — Camilo Villegas

Pour everything out for the blood you have shed, you're wasting your time in appeasing the dead. — Aeschylus

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress. — Gerry Harvey

Intelligence is not a prerequisite for safe flying, but an acceptance of human fallibility is, and the two are generally linked. — William Langewiesche

You'll have more visions and thoughts to prepare you. Your heart's desire shows you the future. We put Angels in the sky to show you that we are in your life, and you are on path. — Paul Stefaniak

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive. — Marcus Aurelius

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable. — Albert Camus

I have to always remember, writing is really hard. — David Remnick

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard. — Benjamin Jowett

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

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute. — John Joly

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Quite true. And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up? We cannot. Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only. — Plato

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. — Henry A. Wallace

Freedom brings the privilege to make decisions and the need to learn once again how to rightly make them. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

History is a treadmill turned by rising human numbers. Today GM crops are being marketed as the only means of avoiding mass starvation. They are unlikely to improve the lives of peasant farmers ; but they may well enable them to survive in greater numbers. — John Gray

But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There's no godliness there. — John Steinbeck

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. — Steven Holl

Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant. — Jose Andres