“I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.” PeopleShowsLastsGroupsStartingEnthusiasmCurbLarge GroupsCurb Your Enthusiasm Author:Wanda Sykes
“It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.” WellsFactsFormBrainKnownTakenGroupsFineWell KnownConsumedTabletsLarge GroupsPez Author:Dave Barry
“Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsChildrenPersonsHas BeensThreeIndividualViewsNumbersPsychologyGroupsExampleParticularResearchConcernedPatientBehaveObservingDisappointingSmall NumbersLarge Groups Author:Jean Piaget
“One difference between libertarianism and socialism is that a socialist society can't tolerate groups of people practicing freedom, but a libertarian society can comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism. If a group of people - even a very large group - wanted to purchase land and own it in common, they would be free to do so. The libertarian legal order would require only that no one be coerced into joining or giving up his property.” PeopleIfsGivingWould BeWantedOrderDifferencesCommonGroupsLandGiving UpPropertyLibertarianSocialismLibertarianismTolerateSocialistJoiningLarge Groups Author:David Boaz
“I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.” IfsMenFeelsHappensFeltChanceGroupsTerribleLike SomethingLarge Groups Author:Josh Radnor
“It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.” PeopleKnowsFeelingsSpeakForceWaitingDifficultWalksGroupsPoliceShouldersAll TimeThese DaysWaiting For YouLarge Groups Author:Benjamin Carson
“A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.” WantChildrenIndividualBusinessGroupsProfitMaking MoneyMotiveLarge GroupsProfit Motive Author:Margaret Halsey
“Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.” PeopleKnowsFeelsGamesFunChallengesGroupsEpicDevelopersLarge GroupsFired Up Author:Jane McGonigal
“The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.” FactsGroupsInformationObjectsExpressionMethodDiscussionSuitableLarge Groups Author:Francis Galton
“You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!” PeopleKnowsMenWayStillsMatterEyeRealizingChanceCareersGroupsFrontsAnxietyStressEmbraceNervousButterflyLiving My LifeEmbarrassingPitchingHere I AmRoller CoasterCoastersPublic EyeLarge Groups Author:Jim Abbott
“Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.” PeopleSocialResultsGroupsFashionAgreementConsensusLarge Groups Author:Stella Blum
“People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.” PeopleThinkingShouldTryingCountryHelpingTogetherCitiesGroupsTaxesBenefitsTownsJust BeingHelping Each OtherLarge GroupsPaying Taxes Author:Michael Schur
“One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.” PeopleTryingGroupsMajorsAgreeMaximsConductorLarge Groups Author:Michael Tilson Thomas
“Anybody who comes together in a large group and they all believe the same thing, they're going to generate a certain amount of power. The Bible says one puts 1,000 in flight, and two 10,000, and so on and so forth. And so even if me and somebody else got into agreement about something, we would have more power than each of us by ourselves.” IfsBelieveTwoTogetherCertainGroupsAmountFlightAgreementLarge Groups Author:Joyce Meyer
“Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.” PeopleBeliefGroupsMassiveLarge GroupsMassive Change Author:Rob Bell
“It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.” PeopleNeedsDifficultLevelsSuccessfulFocusGroupsExtremesProductivityBeing SuccessfulLarge Groups Author:Sam Altman
“Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You can’t afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing messages, in large groups, and hope that some will send you money. Instead, the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.” PeopleWayProcessGroupsCostMessagesFoundationMarketingConsumersUnwantedIgniteMarketersInterruptingLarge Groups Author:Seth
“People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.” PeopleGroupsStrangeObsessedConsideringLarge Groups Author:Kristen Stewart
“If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.” IfsKnowsPersonsIndividualNationsGroupsLife ChangingLarge Groups Author:Marianne Williamson
“Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.” PeoplePlayLyingGamesBitsSimplePartyGroupsPaperSittingSevenCirclesEquipmentWerewolfAssassinationHysteriaAccusationGuessingLarge GroupsSecond Guessing Author:Andrew Plotkin
“The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.” PeopleWantTryingLastsDealsGroupsModernIndiaWestToleranceAlternativesOrganizedLast TimeLicenseOthernessLarge Groups Author:Pankaj Mishra
“It's tough, you know, when you're thin and you don't put on muscle mass that easily. What you've got to remember is that you really have to eat a lot and you have to work your body out with basic exercises like deadlifts and squats and the bench press - the workouts that are basic in form but work a large group of muscles.” KnowsBodyRememberFormGroupsExerciseMassToughPressesYour BodyMusclesWorkoutBenchesLarge Groups Author:Daniel Cudmore
“During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.... The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.” PeopleTryingMightPoliticalDemocracyGroupsDemandCrisisPressesPassiveSophisticatedArenaNaive1960sApatheticLarge Groups Author:Noam Chomsky
“When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.” PeopleWonderGroupsLarge GroupsAutopsy Author:George Carlin
“There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'” PeopleKnowsHateGroupsAmountHeroMurderGreat ThingsAdmireAtrocitiesSmall AmountsUgandaLarge Groups Author:Forest Whitaker