289 Quotes About Popularity

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments.

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate.

A lot of people don't like me. I take that as evidence that I have done something beautifully different or something extraordinary.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

They love you when you’re beautiful, winning, shining and even sinning. But they don’t see you, don’t hear you, don’t listen when you’re raw, real, grungy, jagged and obviously flawed...and that’s why you never let compliments go to your head or criticism go to your heart. People are fickle. And so, more and more everyday, I’m learning to be unmoved, to become more grounded and content within myself.

M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much that he had left his heart in other people's books, and all that remained was dryness. One day I asked him how he came to know so much. He said, 'Not by being such a handsome young man as you. I wasn't in demand, and instead of going out I studied and learned'.