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“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”

Years Believe Week Fellows Crowds Telescopes

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”

Men Whole Body Would Be Science Time Given Chance Path Creation Hard Work Accounts Crowds Our Time Given A Chance Pasteur

Author:Jean Rostand

“You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.”

Sometimes Attention Land Rocks Sticks Crowds Indian Territory

Author:David Lee Roth

“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”

Ideas Crowds Theatre Reflexes Involuntary

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”

Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”

Thinking Men Nations Fear Compassion Influence Anxiety Empathy Crowds Insanity Trusted Herds Herd Mentality

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.”

People Knows Wells Art Sometimes White Rooms Millions Dollars Crowds Ugly Spending Auctions Gaudy Preview

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.”

Passion Strong Nations Liberty Class Argument Hatred Crowds Goddess Celestial Shouting Unbridled Passion

Book:The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909

Source: The Changing World: And Lectures to Theosophical Students; Fifteen Lectures Delivered in London During May, June, and July 1909

“I get panic attacks in big crowds.”

Bigs Crowds Panic Panic Attacks

Author:Liev Schreiber

“In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.”

Thinking Important Moments Wise Quiet Essentials Good Things Crowds Being Wise Quiet Moments

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.”

Term Common Psychology Crowds Lowest Evolutionary Psychology Anarchist Herds Mistrust Common Denominator Power And Control Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Will Self

“Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.”

Sometimes Madness Crowds Absence

Author:Will Self

“Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.”

Kind Made Individual Strange Comfort Mass Madness Crowds All Kinds Collectives Massive Contrast Suspicion Starks

Author:Will Self

“I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.”

Want Has Beens Important Hands Hurt Fans Huge Madness Mad Crowds Crush Gigs Being Hurt

Author:Justin Bieber

“One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.”

World Moments Shows House Audience Rocks Crowds Hearing Bones Uplifting Liars Entertaining Doomed Best Moments Indie Rock

Author:Rob Sheffield

“Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.”

Games Seeing Emotional Right Now Percent Red Guitar Musical Shoes Crowds Pops Excess Punk Microphones Disco Maestro Auteurs Sequins

Author:Rob Sheffield

“For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.”

Problem Individual Numbers Crowds Smarter

Book:Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

Source: Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

“With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.”

Helping Home Father Gone Leaving Crowds Ugly Wounds Wounded Lap Wagons Kidneys

Book:Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

“Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.”

Shows Might Pain Stuff Forget Crowds Smell Complaining Kicks Chests Ache Forget It Adrenaline Rainy Rainy Day

Author:Gene Simmons

“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.”

Way Wells Motivational Able Leadership Player Involved Basketball Balls Crowds Dishes Larry Basketball Player Diving Sports Leadership Boston Celtics

Book:Drive: The Story of My Life

Source: Drive: The Story of My Life

“For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

“Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.”

People Giving Should Art Different Girl Normal Art Is Red Crowds Singers Carpet Different Peoples Normal Life Red Carpet Pretty Girl

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.”

People Bigs Theater Crowds Noise Dozen Movie Theater Pleasers Crowd Pleasers

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.”

Way Christian Party Hero Jew Crowds Orthodox Persecution Surviving

Author:John Shelby Spong

“We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.”

Night Crowds Every Night Survived Slayer

Author:Layne Staley

“If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.”

Ifs Knows Pain Pleasure Willing Crowds Humiliation

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.”

Knows Said Hate Sports Crowds Hats Retiring

Author:Willie Stargell

“New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.”

Interest Stupid New York Fields Walking Mirrors Crowds Foolish Fascinating Unreal Walking Away

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.”

Fronts Singing Crowds Hated

Author:Rod Stewart

“For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.”

People Thinking Needs Perspective Smart Independent Crowds Following Diverse Being Smart

Author:James Surowiecki

“Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.”

People Way Stills Shows Answers Effort Example Particular Complexes Come Up Crowds Good Examples Linux

Author:James Surowiecki

“We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.”

Want Feels Important Jesus Grows Goal Church Focus Crowds Addresses

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.”

Party Rocks Masters Crowds Rap Ceremony Master Ceremony

Author:Ice T

“A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.”

Ifs Knows Kids Stage Scared Crowds Rap Wow Mastery Rhyme

Author:Ice T

“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”

People Political Language Streets Wall Creating Ordinary Crisis Majority Complexes Crowds Ordinary People Urgent Participants Fluent

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.”

Jobs Interesting Lonely Crowds Ministers Prime Prime Minister Being Lonely

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.”

House Space White Behavior Size Crowds White House Vicious Jet Lawns Berserk Hyenas

Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”

Looks Persons Individual Company Power Crowds Intellect Charm Temper Gifted Marvelous Looking Good Digestion Good Digestion

Book:Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition

“You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.”

Crowds Shoulders Standing Out

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.”

Care Race Hollywood Hot Crowds Packages Chicks Demographics Hottest Hot Chick

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.”

Trying Littles Bits Enjoy Space Projects Little Bit Strive Crowds Leap

Author:Emily Blunt

“I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.”

Care Crowds Educational I Care Charisma Over The Top Extroverts Because I Care

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.”

Thinking Deals Wine Crowds Website Launching

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.”

Thinking Feels I Can Guy Fall Five Ten Negative Response Falling In Love Crowds Educational Enormous Crush Reviews Wow Cents Fifteen This Guy Eighty Amazon Obnoxious

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.”

Attitude Audience Baseball Crowds Theatre Atmosphere Positive Attitude Distinctive

Book:Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

“In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.”

Draws Crowds Eras Making Money Contracts Wrestling Inherent

Author:Jesse Ventura

“Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'”

Thinking Littles Stories Listening Despair Standing Crowds Tiny Malice Hints

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.”

Groups Lonely Crowds Being Lonely

Author:Julie Walters

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”

Needs Real Social Interest Imagination History Influence Materials Conscious Crowds Fabric My Imagination Compulsion Social Life Indirect

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.”

Arms Crowds Release

Author:Florence Welch

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