Quotes About Following Crowds

#1. Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds!

Carolyn Wells

#2. The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other's reading to share a casual delight.

Keith Donohue

#3.
Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#4. The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

Mychal Wynn

#5. After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Elliott Erwitt

#6. A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

George Eiferman

#7. Being faithful doesn't mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.

Christine Caine

#8. When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

George Soros

#9. Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

George Nakashima

#10. No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.'
'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.
'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

Sonia Rumzi

#13. America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

Wayne Grady

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

Benjamin Graham

#15. When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

Dave Eggers

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

Bob Proctor

#17. As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.

Tony Burgess