Samuel Smiles Quotes

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

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

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

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

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

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.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

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.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I once bought a $150,000 car just because my friends told me to. Not because I wanted it. Because they told me to.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

Very often, unfortunately, people may believe something, but they go along with a group of people because they don't have the courage to stand alone or stand up for themselves.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

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

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of people in his audience could not think for themselves, could not find the courage to allow their ordinary feelings of decency and taste to prevail, I understood better how demagogues are possible.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.