"Screening out peer pressure and conventional wisdom. It is so powerful, that most of us aren't even aware of how much it is influencing our decisions."

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Robert S. Kaplan

#Powerful Quotes #Decision Quotes #Peer Pressure Quotes

“For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.”
“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.”
“For every drug that benefits a patient, there is a natural substance that can achieve the same effect.”
“You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary.”
“Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's not thin enough or doesn't have big enough ***** - and the girl who people call a bit overweight, but meanwhile, she's wearing a bikini and guys are saying, "God, she's sexy." It all has to do with how you feel about yourself - it's about projecting the attitude, I'm OK with who I am.”
“The sooner you get something started the more likely you get to be successful, get started today!”
“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”
“It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .”

Source : Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

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