Crowds Quotes - Page 29

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

  Hans Froði Hansen

  Life, Positivity, Standing Alone

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• In contemporary society, advertising is everywhere. We cannot walk down the street, shop, watch television, go through our mail, log on to the Internet, read a newspaper or take a train without encountering it. Whether we are alone, with our friends or family, or in a crowd, advertising is always with us, if only on the label of something we are using.

  Guy Cook

  Mail, Watches, Labels

  Guy Cook (2001). “The Discourse of Advertising”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Play, Feelings, Liberty

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• The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Law, Research

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• Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Baseball, Volleyball, Beach

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Integrity, Character, Independent

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Let us, therefore, foresake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

  Polycarp

  Teaching, Vanity, Christianity

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• Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as it does towards the latter stages of the fire fight, and the crowd instinct possesses the soldier, then will he, if training has formed those necessary mental reflexes, surrender himself to the will of his leader; this is where leadership supplants discipline without destroying it.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Fighting, Intelligent, Fire

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• There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

  J. G. Holland

  Flower, Thinking, Dust

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• This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Forgotten, Cases

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• The bigger the game the better. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I feed off big crowds and noise.

  Curt Schilling

  Wrestling, Games, Noise

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• I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Thinking, People

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• You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Generosity, Disagree

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• Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Memories, Home

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• If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership. To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance it deserves. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

  Robert Redford

  Issues, Challenges, Way

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• When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

  Shlomo Riskin

  Two, Steps, Energy

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• If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

  Sally Stanford

  Running, Advice, Looks

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• Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

  Margaret of Valois

  Success, Adversity, Prosperity

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• I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

  Robert Pattinson

  Doors, Careers, Giving

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• I'm just scared of crowds. I just think people require things of me whenever there's a screaming crowd, and I always think I won't be able to provide what they want, so that's why I look scared all the time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced on. All my life I've hated crowds. Now I only have to step outdoors and I'm at the centre of one. It's very cool but it's very uncomfortable too.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Hype, Insane

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• I don't really understand it even now, It does have an angle which is attached to something quite primal in girls. I guess people want it to define them, like 'I'm a Twilight fan.' That's crazy to me. I think people really just like being part of a crowd. There's something just tremendously exciting about hyping yourself up to that level.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Crazy, Twilight

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• A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Men, Paris

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• Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Talking, Ideas

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Long

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