Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Peers often matter more than parents.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Society becomes how we behave.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

… the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through natural selection as one of the most important elements of the social instincts.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.