Edward R. Murrow Quotes

Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

Human beings all mimic each other.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

I think for the longest time I used to be kind of embarrassed that if I hung out with someone that had a really, really strong personality, I would end up accidentally catching myself talking like them.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

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

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

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.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

Man is an imitative creature.