Alice Munro Quotes

Man is a child of his environment.

You are bound to pick up influences.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

Context shapes who you are.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

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

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

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Kids are a product of their environment.

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

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Your environment influences your mindset.