Jerry Spinelli Quotes

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

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 think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

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

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.

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

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

People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

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

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

I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.

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

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

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

I was so interested in makeup, but I was pressured to follow what my family and friends wanted me to do.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.