Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

Finding like-minded people is very important. It's hard to be a happy meal in a room full of sad people.

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

Most smiles are started by another smile.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

Just by being happier, everyone benefits because your happiness is contagious.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.