Following the Crowd Quotes

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

Whoever imitates a people is one of them.

I definitely went through this whole phase of seeing what my seniors or friends would be wearing and just copying that.

Had they taken a poll in Philadelphia in 1776, [the founders] would have scrapped the whole idea of independence. A third of the country was for it, a third of the country was against it, and the remaining third, in the old human way, was waiting to see who came out on top.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

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

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.

If you think that one should do a commercial picture because everyone is doing it and that one will become a big star after that, I think that if you don't have that grain in you, it will not happen.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

What is the difference between fashion and style? Fashion says, 'Me, too,' and style, 'Only me.'

The business case for the Paris agreement has nothing to do with climate change. It goes like this: It is better to be part of any confab than outside of it. Like saluting the flag or bowing your head in church, there is no cost to being insincere, but there is a cost to not going along.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.