Susan Orlean Quotes

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I'm an Internet junkie.

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.

When you're on social media, your brain is being rewired.

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.