We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.
I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin’ with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.
For me, I have the highest amount of respect for DJs. There’s a real skill set and ability to hold a crowd’s attention for four to five hours, especially with an R&B/hip-hop and open-format music.
I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it’s almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.
When I came into movies or acted in ‘Njandukalude Natil Oridavela’ and ‘Mayaanadhi,’ little did I expect such a huge response from the crowd. All I expected was to work with good filmmakers.
The Full Sail crowd, it’s a pretty unique and a pretty distinct environment. It’s very close quarters and a bit more of what I’m used to from my days on the independents. But the truth is, I sometimes think that it’s harder to win over a small crowd sometimes than it is to win over a big crowd.
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
Don’t underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.
One night I’ll be in Los Angeles and it’ll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I’ll go to Fresno and it’ll be an all-black crowd. To me, that’s the beauty of the music.
The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
I’ve always enjoyed playing in Switzerland. The crowd support is amazing here, and Basel is one of the best indoor tournaments in the world.
When the tone needs to be set and the crowd need to be revved up, nothing is better than a big, shuddering tackle.
I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.
The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
Well, a lot of people don’t know this about me, but I’m actually shy around people I don’t know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn’t really talk onstage. I was like, ‘Thank you, I love you guys,’ or whatever. But now I’ve just kind of learned to work a crowd.
The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.
My high school was in the private school league, and we played all our games at the college stadium. It wasn’t like we filled it, but we got a good crowd.
I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
A mixer for me needs to have some sort of effects, as it’s a big part of how I might hype up the crowd in certain parts of a track, using the delays and filters for instance.
It was really beautiful. The mayors of Glovertown and Gambo introduced me, and then I talked to the crowd. In fifteen minutes, we raised more than $700 in a town with less than 3,000 people. It was a fantastic feeling and a day I will never forget because I hope it is a start of things to come.
I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that’s what it is. I’m a crowd pleaser.
As I’ve conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it’s constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.
When they hated me, it was hell. I used to fight the crowd before I even started my matches. It was crazy.
Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
The bigger the crowd and the more hyped they are, the more hyped I am.
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.
Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality – it goes with the crowd.
I had more energy at 25 and did more jiving around. People got to understand that when you’re not so interested in something, you’re not gonna do it to the best of your ability. I used to get excited working the crowd, but no more.
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Never give advice in a crowd.
It’s an honor to sit back and see people loving the things that you did 25 years ago and still be here and be amongst the crowd to receive those blessings.
That gets me upset- you’re jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can’t just stop the show and say, ‘Oh, Jeff’s got a guitar problem.’
I can’t take a game-winner in practice. I can’t shoot free throws in practice that simulates the game. There’s no crowd; there’s no nothing.
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
I used to love jumping into the bushes in my back garden, thinking I was jumping into the crowd after I scored in front of the Holte End.
The energy that a crowd gives you is so amazing and so fun because when the crowd’s having fun, it makes us even more excited, and it feels like we’re all having fun together. It’s like a big party.
If you live in New York or L.A., and you’re liberal, and you’re playing to a liberal crowd, it’s almost like a rally… it’s not edgy.
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life – only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
Flying isn’t great for me – or getting caught in a crowd.
The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they’re reacting to what you’re doing.
I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.
I like the tournaments at home. The crowd is always behind you.
When you go out on stage and you greet the crowd, there’s nothing like it.
I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
I can tell how I’m doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.
Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they’re going to hit the ball. I will. I’ll call my shots.
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn’t care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
Any crowd that gets on your back makes it difficult, but you are going to get that if things aren’t going well. The fans have got their right to give their opinion.
I’ve always been a guy that’s liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I’m not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.
I’m always excited to see the reaction of the crowd when I’m playing a new song.
There’s nothing like performing in front of a live crowd and just having people literally react to whatever it is you do, and there’s nothing better than when you get that connection with the audience.
