Bob Proctor Quotes

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

Bob Proctor

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• Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Money
  • Radio
  • Chances

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Crowd

• There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Crowd
  • Lot
  • Every

• You cannot take all the chances you get.

  

  Marat Safin
  • You
  • Take
  • Chances

• I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Music
  • Single
  • Artist

• I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • I Think
  • Realize

• I took a swing early and I let it go pretty good, and I felt fine, ... After that, I took my chances.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Crowd

• If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • May
  • Simple

• The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • People
  • Music
  • Growing

• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • Free
  • Comedy

• Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Changes
  • Chances

• The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Woman
  • Crowd

• Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Happiness
  • Security
  • Chances

• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Crowd
  • Lonesome
  • Terrible Thing

• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Attention
  • Crowd
  • Attract

• Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Beauty
  • Chances
  • Particulars

• If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

  

  Orville Wright
  • True
  • Hope
  • Assumption

• The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

  

  Harry Seidler
  • Language
  • Ancient Egyptians

• I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Believe
  • Moments

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

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Chances
  • Crowd
  • Wrong Path