33 quotes found
“If you want to win, drop the past trends. Genius creates new trends and the crowd follows the past.”
“The crowd makes the ballgame.”
“Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is ...”
“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”
“And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.”
“i often sit and wonderi often sit and dreami often sit and waitfor the one that’s just for me i search the many facesin the crowds of people i see exploring, seeking,looking for, the one that it co...”
“The fact that everyone is doing something does not mean that’s the right things.”
“To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.”
“It’s a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person’s life. More than that, it’s a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the c...”
“Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.”
“There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.”
“No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance see...”
