Social Environment Quotes

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinion.

Man is a child of his environment.

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances... [Slavery]

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.

I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Surround yourself with optimistic people.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

We're all products of our own environment.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

It's often said that you're the product of the five people you spend the most time with. If you allow even one of those five people to be toxic, you'll soon find out how capable he or she is of holding you back.

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

My childhood shaped the person I became. It was artistic, musical and left-wing.

I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.