Lewis Thomas Quotes

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success of an organization emerges not only from its individual participants, but also from the interplay between them.

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

Society becomes how we behave.

Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.

Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

I've been around clubhouses a long time, I know how to maneuver around the clubhouse.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

I do not like comparisons that much. Each team has its own inner life.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

I am a total me, me, Me person.