Katie Hafner Quotes

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

It's very important to get friends on board, friends who make a difference.

Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

Most of the people that I still talk to and hang out with, to them, I'm just Ken.

Sometimes when people start dating a hot piece, they take on some of their boo's characteristics unintentionally.

When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?

I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.

Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.

I was always pretty popular, just cool with everybody.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

We weep and laugh, as we see others do.

If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.

Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

You will never outperform your inner circle.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.