John le Carre Quotes

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

I've always been attracted to negative influences - I thought that meant you were smart.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

Off a cup of C.J. Gibson, man I'm faded off the brown and I'm easily influenced by the niggas I'm around

I was so interested in makeup, but I was pressured to follow what my family and friends wanted me to do.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

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.

When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking and acting a fool, and think to myself, there is nothing cool about that. I never wanted to be that out of control.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.

An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

When people are watching you, it makes you think twice about what you do, and the things you say, and the people you hang around with.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.