Alex Garland Quotes

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

You judge people as you meet them.

When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that.

You judge someone from the day you meet them.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

The time to make up your mind about people is never.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

I believe that first impressions are very important.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

I judge people very quickly.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

I think people make way too much of ratings.

Just because I don't smile a lot, people think, 'Ah, yeah. He must have a bad attitude.' But if you don't know me, you don't know me. That was the problem. My face is just serious!

If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.

We can be judged in many ways.

Looks matter a lot, and it has always mattered. We always judge. I have not only been on the receiving end, but I have also judged others.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.