Leahannah Quotes & Sayings

In fact, the messages actually seemed to increase drug use. Kids aged twelve and a half to eighteen who saw the ads were actually more likely to smoke marijuana. Why? Because it made drug use more public. Think about observability and social proof. Before seeing the message, some kids might never have thought about taking drugs. Others might have considered it but have been wary about doing the wrong thing. But anti-drug ads often say two things simultaneously. They say that drugs are bad, but they also say that other people are doing them. And as we've discussed throughout this chapter, the more others seem to be doing something, the more likely people are to think that thing is right or normal and what they should be doing as well. — Jonah Berger

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away. — Robert Goolrick

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them. — Richard Paul Evans

The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference. — Judith McNaught

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors. — James Lipton