Mats Wilander Quotes

… the irresistible power of concentrated public opinion

There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

The future belongs to crowds.

My chief weapon is public opinion: The Spaniards, incapable of directing it, have prohibited its use; but now they are experiencing its force and importance.

People assume that your audience is full of people who love you. But, typically, it's one person in four who's chosen to come and has convinced some other people to go with them.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

What is any public question but a conglomeration of private interests?

“The Wisdom of Crowds” suggests that if enough bumbling people act in concert, they’ll find their way to a less bumbling place.

… the most powerful weapon that we have our command to-day is public opinion. Statesmen quail before it and it could move mountains!

No usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.

A crowd is always impressed by the sum of its own number.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

It makes a lot of people cringe, the idea of being a team player.