Duncan Sheik Quotes

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

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Man is a child of his environment.

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.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

How we behave in our public lives inevitably reflects values, attitudes and experiences embedded in our private lives and vice versa.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

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

The spirit of the age, as it is revealed to each of us, is too often only the spirit of the group in which the accidents of birth or education or occupation or fellowship have given us a place.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.