Stephen Breyer Quotes

What one person does, several people usually consider.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

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.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Human beings all mimic each other.

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

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

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.

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.

We are trying to learn from the consequences of one's peers' actions.

Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

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

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

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.'

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

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.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.