Aileen Lee Quotes

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

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

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

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.

Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

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

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.

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

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

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

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

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

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

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.