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Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think. -- Rob Lowe
I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think. -- Lewis Schiff
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity. -- Mark Pagel
That being said, everyone of us can move a big step farther towards determining the direction of our own lives. We can all break free from group think. Some more than others. Most don't. Finding out who is who is great fun. -- Lewis Schiff
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options. -- Evelyn Waugh
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. -- Milton Friedman
I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group. -- Martin Parr
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. -- James L. Barksdale
I think there's room for both private exploration and group work in Yoga. -- Sting
I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. -- Ray Davies
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people. -- Emma Caulfield
I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it. -- Dave Chappelle
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups. -- Arthur Levitt
The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement. -- Jim DeMint
I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders. -- Azim Premji
I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough. -- Estelle
I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group. -- Bruce Johnston
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. -- Khaled Hosseini
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it. -- Stephen Breyer
I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun. -- Greg van Eekhout
I think all groups who don't fit in clearly with Western music have to think, 'How can I expand my market? Where else can I perform?' -- Kiran Ahluwalia
I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today. -- Katy Perry
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people! -- Todd Phillips
It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity. -- Graham Coxon
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. -- James L. Barksdale
We have a group of people now who think they own the state. Its disgusting. -- Jim Davis
I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing. -- Erica Jong
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one. -- Andy Stanley
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families. -- Agnes Varda
I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there. -- Eden Robinson
I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken. -- Stevie Jackson
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know. -- Mike Rowe
When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here. -- Steve Harvey
I think you can judge the level of success for any group of people by the reaction against it. -- Rita Mae Brown
I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon. -- Paula Poundstone
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away." -- Tiffany Madison
We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. -- Tiffany Madison
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war. -- Emily Robison
I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war. -- Emily Robison
I do think there's gonna always be a group of country people that are always going to love the old traditional sound. -- Dolly Parton
I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. -- Julia Roberts
Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person. -- Amber Le Bon
[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . . -- Doris Lessing
we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader. -- Mary Parker Follett
A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves -- K. C. Jones
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. -- James Surowiecki
You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches. -- Iliza Shlesinger
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about. -- Lewis Black
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. -- Jonathan Haidt
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. -- John Wooden
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful. -- John Wooden
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art. -- Steve Jobs
I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo. -- Lauryn Hill
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives. -- Earl Hamner, Jr.
I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor. -- Stockard Channing
Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than. -- Laura Owens
I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are. -- Jackson Guthy
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything. -- Robert Greene
There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person. -- Sundar Pichai
I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true. -- Alex Haley
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I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness. -- Nia Long
I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober. -- Georgia Salpa
There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I'm the most powerful person. -- Sundar Pichai
We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create. -- Ivan Illich
It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn't always turn out. -- Cher
People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other. -- Duncan Green
Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. -- Evita Ochel

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