Crowds Quotes - Page 37

• They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of a vacant mind, that they are not so much led by hope as driven by disgust, and wish rather to leave the country than to see the town.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Cities, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.387

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• Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Honor, President

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

  Pete Seeger

  Feet, People, Ceilings

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• There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing.

  Taylor Swift

  Sound

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• Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

  Roger Ebert

  Teacher, Drama, Inspiration

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• In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lonely, Loneliness

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• Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

  Roger Ebert

  Artist, Members

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• We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

  Myles Munroe

  Heart, Principles, Doe

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.21, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

  Bob Proctor

  Following The Crowd, Path, Chance

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Nov 10, 2016

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• Do you think of yourself as a creative personality? If you do, you are both fortunate and correct, in fact the beautiful truth is that everyone is creative and we all have the ability to develop our creative potential. It is wise to remember that the person who follows the crowd will get no further than the crowd. The person who walks the creative path is likely to find they are in places no one has ever been before.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Wise, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 02, 2011

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• Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Love Is, Two

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.

  J. C. Ryle

  Eye, Thinking, House

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• Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Law, People

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• Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.

  Taylor Swift

  Travel, New York, Light

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Travel, Fall, Home

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Country, Travel

  Song: The Year Of The Cat

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• Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

  Alan Redpath

  Bible, Book, Inspiration

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• Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

  Kevin Smith

  Artist, Trying, Clerks

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• Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Giving Up, Giving

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

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• Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

  P. T. Barnum

  Draws

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• If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

  Richard Branson

  People, Giving, Want

  Twitter post from May 1, 2014

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• When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

  Drake

  Song, Rap, Writing

  "How to Drake It in America" by Michael Paterniti, www.gq.com. June 18, 2013.

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• The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

  Afrojack

  Passion, Prove, Can Do

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• I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Opportunity, Challenges

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• It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Actors, Realizing

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