Group Pressure Quotes

#1. Group pressure is also a fascinating process to watch. Given enough arguments, time, and stress, even the most resolute and determined man can be made fearful enough to completely reverse his ideals to conform with everyone else.

Trish Mercer

#2. A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Tony Orlando

#3. The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#4. Google hires really bright, insecure people and then applies sufficient pressure that no matter how hard they work, they're never able to consider themselves successful. Look at all the kids in my group who work absurd hours and still feel they're not keeping up with everyone else.

Douglas Edwards

#5. Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.

Jacques Rogge

#6. First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Feyerabend

#7. You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

Mariah Carey

#8. I really like the group tour better than going it alone. First of all, it kind of takes the pressure off a little. I'm not a naturally extroverted person. But I also like it because it brings in new fans. For example, someone who really loves Aprilynne Pike's books might pick up mine and vice versa.

Veronica Roth

#9. The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

Lauren Greenfield

#10. At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.

Tracy Chevalier

#11. There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#12. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Mike Lofgren

#13. When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

Ethan Hawke

#14. All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anthony De Mello

#15. not uncomfortable with who they are, but are uncomfortable with expressing who they are. In a group, there's always that pressure to be outgoing. When they don't live up to it, you can see it in their faces." Mike

Susan Cain

#16. Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be?

Sui Ishida

#17. Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.

Evita Ochel

#18. Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

Leonard Read

#19. What I love about the Bible is that it's a group of stories but it's all telling one main story. It's about Jesus Christ. The story is not about me. That takes a lot of the pressure off me, but it also puts the responsibility on me to point people to who the true story is about.

Matt Diaz

#20. When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#21. I have certainly heard of the Subtle Art of Shutting Up, but I can't say I've practiced it all that much. I greatly prefer the underappreciated genius of Speaking My Mind. I figure if someone doesn't like what I have to say, they shouldn't put their ears in close proximity to my mouth.

Jenny Lundquist

#22. We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Joel Salatin

#23. When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

Alexandra Robbins

#24. New Rule: The Jacksons must trot out at least one family member who doesn't make us all ask, What went on in that house?

Bill Maher

#25. The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them,

Steven Pinker