Mitch Hedberg Quotes

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your teeth for me - but I'm a crazy person so maybe that's why.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

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

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.