John Dewey Quotes

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

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

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

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

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.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I am a Christian, not because someone explained the nuts and bolts of Christianity, but because there were people willing to be nuts and bolts.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

Who you spend time with is who you become.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.

A man is known by the company he keeps

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.

People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.