Daphne Guinness Quotes

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

Man is an imitative creature.

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.

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

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

Faults are soon copied.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed, or quarreled in troops and companies.

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

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

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

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

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 are to a large extent an imitative society.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

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

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.