Seth Godin Quotes

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

Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

As much as we don't like to admit it sometimes, we are the influencers.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.

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.

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.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

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

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

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

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

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

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'