Crowds Quotes - Page 3

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

Angel, a crowd of millions couldn’t hide you from me. I found you once. I’ll always find you.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy.

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

I can't help but look for my future wife in the crowd.

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.