Daniel Handler Quotes

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

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

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

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

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

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.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them.

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable." -Bryce Loski