Herd Quotes

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they’re loners.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Life is short. Don’t do the same thing everyone else is doing – that’s such a herd mentality. And don’t do something that’s two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

I’d like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots – I don’t know – I’d probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

I don’t want to follow the herd.

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

I’d like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I’m doing wrong. and I’m also still trying to find and develop my voice as a filmmaker, and I think that’s easier to do on your own terms than trying to satisfy a bunch of people that are paying for the movie.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

We have Beast, our Hungarian sheep dog. And he is so talented. He’s so smart. He knows his daily schedule. He has an extracurricular activity. He goes herding. He herds sheep. And we’ve been told that he’s quite gifted.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don’t really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

In modelling, some girls have been working for the last 15 years and they are still in the same cycle of what they have been doing. It is too big a pool and I am not going to travel with the herd. I need to pave my own way.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

I don’t live by a lot of society‘s rules; I can’t pattern myself after the herd.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it’s very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

I’m now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I’m a new man, but perhaps I’m not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

I was only a teenager when I played with the Herd and Humble Pie, and I was still in my early twenties when ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ came out. That was an immense amount of work in a relatively short period of time. I needed to stop for a while and grow up, but I didn’t do that.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about – farming replacing hunting.

You don’t direct ostriches, you herd them.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as ‘herd immunity.’

A Herd of Turtles’ is the only song on ‘Behold Electric Guitar‘ that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.

I’ve seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that’s obviously less interesting because there’s less going on. I’m just being totally frank with you.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

I have three cows, and I’m looking forward to more in the future, so I’ll have a little herd.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

As a gold-card-carrying member of the nerd herd, I’m usually in the artsy, fringy, PBS-y kind of shows that change maybe five people’s lives forever while leaving everyone else wondering if they can still make the ticket lottery at ‘Wicked.’

On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We’d go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I’ve always been a big animal person.

The industry is in an alarming condition. And we only have ourselves to blame. If one thriller runs, we all run to make thrillers. What about the dozen thrillers that flopped before that? More than the herd mentality it is the ostrich mentality.

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

Rule number one of journalism is that trying to get in between a journalist and a story he wants to tell is like trying to stop a herd of stampeding cattle.

Keeping lice out of schools should be a herd immunity type of attitude. Schools should send home brochures with a plastic comb attached in an envelope.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy – i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

There’s a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal‘s in Dundalk, they start thinking, ‘Ireland must be good if they’re investing there’, and by extension, ‘Dundalk must be good, so let’s have a look at it.’

I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat… eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

I waited until the end of the ‘Behold Electric Guitar’ recording sessions to record ‘A Herd of Turtles,’ as I knew the unusual arrangement might raise some eyebrows.