Group Pressure Quotes

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

I think it's really hard being in a boy band. There's a lot of dynamics.

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

Very often, unfortunately, people may believe something, but they go along with a group of people because they don't have the courage to stand alone or stand up for themselves.

Neha and I were part of a very small, tightly-knit group of close friends. Others in the group like Yuvraj Singh and Gaurav Chopra got married. That left only two of us. So we decided to get married.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

Group action -- yes; group thinking -- no.

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.

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

The followers must feel besieged.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.