Gloria Gaynor Quotes

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

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

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Across decades, the toll of deaths related to fraternity revelry and recklessness is surely in the hundreds. And while physical stress plays a role in some fatalities, most reflect the kind of extreme drinking that’s in the DNA of so-called Greek life. Do we need any cause beyond all of that dying to do away with fraternities wherever possible and to diminish their prominence at schools where various circumstances, including the housing that fraternities provide, prevent them from being shuttered?

Don't do things just to impress others or just because you're scared you won't have any friends.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

As teenagers, we go through social, emotional and physical changes... and sometimes, to feel comfortable, we end up doing things that are not true to who we are just to fit in and feel loved.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

Did you ever drink so much of a certain type of alcohol that you get so sick that you can never drink the same kind again ? I've decided that's how I'm going to quit drinking. One-at-a-time.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

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.

I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

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

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

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch

Protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.