Crowds Quotes - Page 29

• There are two ways of making yourself stand out from the crowd. One is by having a job so big you can go home before the bell rings if you want to. The other is by finding so much to do that you must stay after the others have gone. The one who enjoys the former once took advantage of the latter.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Work, Home

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• Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

  Laurence J. Peter

  Leadership, Moving, Law

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Secret, Shy, Walks

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Loneliness, Writing, Typewriters

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• Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Cheer, Want, Execution

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• Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Self, Europe, Cities

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.176, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Wise, People, Choices

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Feb 07, 2013

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• Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is.

  Dick Button

  Thinking, Years, Essence

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• The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Fall, Careers

  "OPEN SEASON / Uecker left mark on scouting reports" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Light, Achievement, Solitude

  "Leaves Of Morya's Garden". Book by Nicholas Roerich, Book II : Illumination, Ch. VII, 1925.

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mean, Light, Practice

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

  David Platt

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Community

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.52, Multnomah

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• I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.

  Robert Plant

  Laughing, Blind, Melons

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known to us was probably a nickname bestowed by his followers. According to one source, it meant ‘He who spoke truth like an oracle’. Rather than entrust his mathematical and philosophical ideas to paper, Pythagoras is said to have expounded them before large crowds. The world’s most famous mathematician was also its first rhetorician.

  Daniel Tammet

  Philosophical, Names, Ideas

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• One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at arm’s length from multiplicity.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Years, Long

  Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.

  Neville Goddard

  Reality, Ideas, Feelings

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.

  Charlotte Mason

  Sight, Mind, Endless

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• To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Ambition, Reality, Discipline

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• This is the sort of situation I enjoy: a game in the San Siro, a huge crowd and a night for big men. Remember, only victory is beautiful.

  Marcel Desailly

  Beautiful, Men, Night

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• Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

  Patricia Barber

  Night, Inspire, Soul

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• You're out on stage, the music is blaring, the crowd is screaming, the lights are flashing, your heart is pumping, the sweat is flying, and it's the greatest feeling in the whole world.

  Michael Flatley

  Heart, Light, Sweat

  FaceBook post by Michael Flatley from Nov 22, 2013

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• No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.

  Eddie Harris

  Remember You, Remembers You, Standing Out

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