popularity

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
372a16c	That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.	beauty popularity	John Green
bd756e7	Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.	popularity	John Steinbeck
049fd92	His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had a knack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw; he said them because they amused him, hardly realising how much they hurt, and was much offended when he found that his victims regarded him with active dislike. The humiliations he suffered when he first went to school had caused in him a shrinking from his fellows which he could never entirely overcome; he remained shy and silent. But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.	reading isolation popularity	W. Somerset Maugham
79a6aba	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.	quotes-for-women womens-inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspirational fame popularity	C. JoyBell C.
8e64c26	I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.	inspiration fantasy-genre self-deprication popularity ideas	Michael Moorcock
04ad97c	It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.	murder humor kaling mindy fame popularity	Mindy Kaling
cb69570	Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.	paper-town real popularity	John Green
20d33de	A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.	popularity	Frank Herbert
d30ab0b	But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.	sex-appeal popularity	Meg Cabot
d8bd405	What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.	wisdom popularity	John Brunner
2b9f2f6	She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.	jealousy popularity vanity	Edith Wharton
9b3a14b	Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.	leadership statesmanship popularity	Ken Follett
abdb103	You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.	the-crimes-of-grindelwald the-right-thing newt-scamander j-k-rowling popularity right-and-wrong power	J.K. Rowling
f5e9547	"Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman"."	ministry popularity	George Eliot
ec59e25	He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.	popularity	John Grisham
3c09c85	When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.	peer-pressure popularity	Alexandra Robbins
1d6ef57	The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.	life sons-of-fortune jeffrey-archer popularity	Jeffrey Archer
fa5ce04	It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.	solitude fame humility popularity	Bill Bryson
42adef0	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.	universal popularity remember	Madeleine L'Engle
9071175	The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.	reading genre-snobbery nonfiction popularity	Margaret Atwood
d9339e9	Cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountains, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.	noble-savage reputation popularity	Victor Hugo
946cc9d	Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.	leadership popularity	Alexandra Robbins
c33222a	You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.	money joy god success love mansion worldly mariah-carey unhappy fame peace popularity	Lisa Bedrick
60a3c77	The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.	leading popularity	Bill Maher
95750ed	Father Mike was popular with the church widows. They liked to crowd around him, offering him cookies and bathing in his beatific essence. Part of this essence came from Father Mike's perfect contentment at being five foot four. His shortness had a charitable aspect to it, as though he had given away his height.	short widows size popularity	Jeffrey Eugenides
43fda60	(John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity.	political-theater popularity	Joseph J. Ellis
4e6ea35	Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.)	influence popularity power	Alexandra Robbins
19ef1fd	Popular! In America, what else matters?	literature popularity	Joyce Carol Oates
5e71384	It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt	discernment popularity	H.W. Brands
5e8f01e	William McKinley was a man made to be managed.	manipulation popularity	Barbara W. Tuchman
0ac2187	"Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou"	leadership heritage perspective legacy popularity	Mark Kurlansky
e3ce6b8	The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.	leadership repetitions gossip popularity legend	Geraldine Brooks
d0308f8	For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.	reputation social-media popularity	Rebecca Goldstein
794f830	Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.	heritage perspective materialism popularity	Barbara W. Tuchman

372a16c

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

beauty popularity

John Green

bd756e7

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

popularity

John Steinbeck

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His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a sense of humour, and found that he had a knack of saying bitter things, which caught people on the raw; he said them because they amused him, hardly realising how much they hurt, and was much offended when he found that his victims regarded him with active dislike. The humiliations he suffered when he first went to school had caused in him a shrinking from his fellows which he could never entirely overcome; he remained shy and silent. But though he did everything to alienate the sympathy of other boys he longed with all his heart for the popularity which to some was so easily accorded. These from his distance he admired extravagantly; and though he was inclined to be more sarcastic with them than with others, though he made little jokes at their expense, he would have given anything to change places with them.

reading isolation popularity

W. Somerset Maugham

79a6aba

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.

quotes-for-women womens-inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspirational fame popularity

C. JoyBell C.

8e64c26

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

inspiration fantasy-genre self-deprication popularity ideas

Michael Moorcock

04ad97c

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

murder humor kaling mindy fame popularity

Mindy Kaling

cb69570

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

paper-town real popularity

John Green

20d33de

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

popularity

Frank Herbert

d30ab0b

But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.

sex-appeal popularity

Meg Cabot

d8bd405

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

wisdom popularity

John Brunner

2b9f2f6

She had in truth no abstract propensity to malice: she did not dislike Lily because the latter was brilliant and predominant, but because she thought that Lily disliked her. It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

jealousy popularity vanity

Edith Wharton

9b3a14b

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

leadership statesmanship popularity

Ken Follett

abdb103

You don't seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.

the-crimes-of-grindelwald the-right-thing newt-scamander j-k-rowling popularity right-and-wrong power

J.K. Rowling

f5e9547

"Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman"."

ministry popularity

George Eliot

ec59e25

He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

popularity

John Grisham

3c09c85

When a child sees herself through the prism of her peer group, the resulting self image can be distorted.

peer-pressure popularity

Alexandra Robbins

1d6ef57

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

life sons-of-fortune jeffrey-archer popularity

Jeffrey Archer

fa5ce04

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

solitude fame humility popularity

Bill Bryson

42adef0

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.

universal popularity remember

Madeleine L'Engle

9071175

The genres, it is thought, have other designs on us. They want to entertain, as opposed to rubbing our noses in the daily grit produced by the daily grind. Unhappily for realistic novelists, the larger reading public likes being entertained.

reading genre-snobbery nonfiction popularity

Margaret Atwood

d9339e9

Cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountains, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

noble-savage reputation popularity

Victor Hugo

946cc9d

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

leadership popularity

Alexandra Robbins

c33222a

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.

money joy god success love mansion worldly mariah-carey unhappy fame peace popularity

Lisa Bedrick

60a3c77

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.

leading popularity

Bill Maher

95750ed

Father Mike was popular with the church widows. They liked to crowd around him, offering him cookies and bathing in his beatific essence. Part of this essence came from Father Mike's perfect contentment at being five foot four. His shortness had a charitable aspect to it, as though he had given away his height.

short widows size popularity

Jeffrey Eugenides

43fda60

(John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity.

political-theater popularity

Joseph J. Ellis

4e6ea35

Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.)

influence popularity power

Alexandra Robbins

19ef1fd

Popular! In America, what else matters?

literature popularity

Joyce Carol Oates

5e71384

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

discernment popularity

H.W. Brands

5e8f01e

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

manipulation popularity

Barbara W. Tuchman

0ac2187

"Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou"

leadership heritage perspective legacy popularity

Mark Kurlansky

e3ce6b8

The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.

leadership repetitions gossip popularity legend

Geraldine  Brooks

d0308f8

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

reputation social-media popularity

Rebecca Goldstein

794f830

Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

heritage perspective materialism popularity

Barbara W. Tuchman