Preston Sturges Quotes

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

You can improve your education and even change your environment but what you really ARE was all settled when your parents www born. SELECTED PARENTS WILL HAVE BETTER CHILDREN.

Man is a child of his environment.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

We're all products of our own environment.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

In soft regions are born soft men.

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

There is no escaping from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture.

You just are born the way that you're born.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

I can tell when I meet you, within three minutes, how you were raised. When I met Lady Gaga on the 'American Horror' set... beautifully brought up.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.