Michael Gerber Quotes

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

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

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

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.

We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.

You're only as good as the people who you surround yourself with.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I always told myself I will never let football define who I am; I would only let in enhance who I am.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.