Trevor Jackson Quotes

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

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

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

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

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

A lot of people believe what other people say.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.