You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.Jean-Luc GodardConnectionIndependenceSocialization Share this
Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.Jeffrey EugenidesGenderSocialization Share this
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.François de La RochefoucauldDeceptionHappinessSocialization Share this
Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.Frank ShorterAccountabilityMotivationSocialization Share this
When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.Frans de WaalComparisonIntelligenceSocialization Share this
If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy.Fred GreenAttractionSocializationStrategy Share this
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.Mason CooleyCommunicationIsolationSocialization Share this
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America.Meda Chesney-LindCrimeGenderSocialization Share this
The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.Melinda BlauConnectionSocializationTechnology Share this
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.Michael BroadbentCivilizationPleasureSocialization Share this
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.Lord ChesterfieldEtiquetteRespectSocialization Share this
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.Lord ChesterfieldGrowthInfluenceSocialization Share this
Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.Michael PollanEnjoymentMindfulnessSocialization Share this
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.Michel FaberInteractionPreparationSocialization Share this
Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.Michelle PfeifferMoralitySelf-awarenessSocialization Share this
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.George Bernard ShawCommunicationSocializationSpeech Share this
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn’t want to drink with even if he did.George Jean NathanPreferenceSocialization Share this
We are born as who we are, the gender thing is something that is imposed on you.Laverne CoxGenderIdentitySocialization Share this
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.Logan Pearsall SmithJoySocializationWealth Share this
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.J. B. PriestleyRelaxationSocialization Share this
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.Jackson KatzCultureInfluenceSocialization Share this
Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.Jackson KatzSocialization Share this
The system you’re brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.Jacque FrescoConformitySocializationSuccess Share this
Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.Halle BerryInclusivityRaceSocialization Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity