Popularity Quotes
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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]"
"When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person."
"Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable."
"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas."
"I'm so popular in life that valets are already starting to park the cars lined up for my funeral, which is expected sometime late 2082. #OutBoastKanye"
"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
"A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular."
"Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
"Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded"
"We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it."
"Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime."
"He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups."
"A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral."
"Popularity is teenage heroin."
"No popularity exists when tragedy strikes. All that's left are human hearts and love and ache. We all love each other, deep down, and when we see another soul in pain we can't help but hurt too."
"Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]"
"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
"Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time."
Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life."
"Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success."
"The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy."
Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
"To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap."
"It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or surprising that opens a door into a feeling of comfort, meaning, or familiarity. It is called an aesthetic aha."
Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection."
Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
"Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough."
"Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?Would our normal, become our new wierd?"
"It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous."
"There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity..."
"To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them."
"I find comfort in the fact that the longer I'm in politics the less nourishing popularity becomes, that striving for power and rank and fame seems to betray a poverty of ambition, and that I am answerable mainly to the steady gaze of my own conscience."
Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
"Yesterday i was clever so i took the glory for me. Today HE makes me wise so i give the glory to HIM."
"Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come."
"Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is "tetelestai". Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified."
"Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God."
"If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God."
"Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou"
"William McKinley was a man made to be managed."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation."
David Pietrusza, 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies
"The public personality of a leader is not what really matters. What he does out of the open stage really tells more about him than anything else."
"The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip."
"If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son."
"If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison."
"Bellgrove, eminently lovable, because of his individual weakness, his incompetence, his failure as a man, a scholar, a leader or even as a companion, was neverless utterly alone. For the weak, above all, have their friends. Yet his gentleness, his pretence at authority, his palpable humanity were unable, for some reason or other, to function. He was demonstrably the type of venerable and absent-minded professor about whom all the sharp-beaked boys of the world should swarm."
"He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand."
"There are 2 kinds of artists, essentially: those who want to make something popular, and those who want to make something dignified. But then there is still that rare hybrid case, and perhaps by that unintentional stroke of genius, in which one's work uncontrollably becomes both popular and dignified yet beyond its time."
"It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain."
"Do you think that a billion people knowing your face makes you special?It doesn't."
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