William Shakespeare Quotes

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.

Emotion is contagious.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

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.

Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

Smile and others will smile back.

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.