Best 234 quotes in «popularity quotes» category

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.

Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

Horse racing is waning in popularity.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

It's better to be trusted than to be liked.

I love that vinyl is actually growing in popularity, and that there are so many great record stores.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Please repeat: influence is not popularity.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

Popularity is not the single determining factor, as we all know, in how people vote.

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

Real success is finding your life work in the work that you love. That's it. Don't worry about making a living, don't worry about popularity or fame. Make what you do ... count more than what you own.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.

The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

The THE TABLOIDS are always going to be a war for POPULARITY in the CELEB world.