Robert Sapolsky Quotes

It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Our species likes being social.

I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.

I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.

I think the No. 1 thing that helps me get through every single day is the support of my friends and my family.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

I'm very lucky to have a strong support system with my friends and my family. They have kept me grounded.

Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

People care about others in their immediate network.