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#1

“Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: popularity

182 likes

#2

“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.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: fame, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, popularity, quotes-for-women, womens-inspirational

162 likes

#3

“It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arrogance, development, emotions, experiment, fame, growth, humility, improvement, learning, life, peace, popularity, pride, science, training

93 likes

#4

“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”
― Aristophanes, The Knights

tags: elections, falsehood, government, hypocrisy, politics, popularity, promises

81 likes

#5

“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: art, be-yourself, consequence, creativity, exhaustion, fashion, fitting-in, gimmick, honesty, meaning, niche, originality, popularity, purpose, significance, standing-out, success, trend, truth, trying-hard

52 likes

#6

“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: attention, being-yourself, celebrities, emotional, facade, fame, fortune, human, inability, introvert, libel, loneliness, lonely, misconception, misrepresentation, misrepresented, misunderstood, naive, physical, popularity, psychological, remedy, slander, solitude

60 likes

#7

“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.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: The Original Screenplay

tags: fantastic-beasts, j-k-rowling, newt-scamander, popularity, power, right-and-wrong, the-crimes-of-grindelwald, the-right-thing

24 likes

#8

“Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

tags: crowd, feel, feeling, feelings, loneliest, lonely, people, popular, popularity, unappreciated

14 likes

#9

“He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…”
― Margaret Oliphant, The Rector

tags: popularity, regard, respect

13 likes

#10

“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: popularity, reputation

57 likes

#11

“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.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Inner Life

tags: grace, nonconformity, popularity, soul

36 likes

#12

“Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all the students knew the teachers. It was like teachers were people who finally were the most popular at school.”
― Victoria Kahler, Their Friend Scarlet

tags: popularity, reliving-high-school, students, teachers, teaching

31 likes

#13

“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: impressions, mannerisms, personality, popularity

28 likes

#14

“Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Keys to the Repository

tags: popularity

16 likes

#15

“Yoh: Being popular with guys isn't something you can just stitch together!

Haruna: What?! I Can't?!

Yoh: OF COURSE NOT!

Yoh: Mixing coke, tea and orange juice would taste nasty, right?! That's exactly what you're doing!”
― Kazune Kawahara, High School Debut, Vol. 1

tags: high-school-debut, humor, kazune-kawahara, popularity, yoh

14 likes

#16

“Evil is more famous than goodness.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: popularity

15 likes

#17

“Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

tags: company, friendship-and-love, independence, maturity, popularity, soul

15 likes

#18

“The only time she's come close to being "known" was when she accidentally came out as bisexual during sophomore English class while talking about her favorite poem.”
― C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick

tags: asian-characters, bisexual-characters, cb-lee, coming-out, english-class, highs-chool, lgbtqia-characters, not-your-sidekick, poem, poetry, popularity

13 likes

#19

“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: humor, popularity, russia, society

7 likes

#20

“Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core.. ”
― Himmilicious, The Clicked Shutterbug.

tags: fame, famous, popularity

7 likes

#21

“she had no fear of the spotlight, only of the places it did not reach.”
― David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

tags: impression, introspection, popularity

4 likes

#22

“Oscar Wilde once said, “Whatever is popular is wrong.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

tags: business-growth-strategy, human-psychology, marketing, oscar-wilder, popularity

25 likes

#23

“It is not fashionable where I am not.”
― Dorothea Lieven, Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, During Her Residence in London, 1812-1834

tags: arrogance, leaders, party, popularity, presence, social-presence, trendsetter

3 likes

#24

“Popularity is just a good way of saying a lot of people like you a little. Not that real people like you a lot.”
― Laura Greenwood, First Time's a Charm

tags: like, likeable, people, popularity, real-people

3 likes

#25

“Being an ignoramus is not enough to prevent one from being famous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: celebrities, celebrity, education, fame, famous, ignorance, knowledge, media, popularity, success

2 likes

#26

“There is no sense in refusing honours. That is in fact to do them too much honour. The only strategy is to act so that they never weigh upon you.

Your delicious (and malicious) certainty that you are a beautiful woman only subjugates yourself. How is one to approach her to be subjugated oneself?

It seems difficult to meet the woman of your life when you have several (lives). In fact, as soon as you have a double life . . .

Popular fame is what we should aspire to. Nothing will ever match the distracted gaze of the woman serving in the butcher's who has seen you on television.

With their feet caught in the ice like the pink flamingos, they still thought they were God's gift to mankind.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

tags: beautiful-people, distraction, fame, honours-and-prizes, popularity, pretension, transmigration-of-the-soul, women

1 likes

#27

“When I was a child, my father forbade me to read science fiction or fantasy. Trash of the highest order, he said. He didn't want me muddying up my young, impressionable mind with crap. If it wasn't worthy of being reviewed in the Times, it did not make it onto our bookshelves.
So while my classmates gleefully dove into The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Borrowers, I was stuck reading Old Yeller.
My saving grace- I was the most popular girl in my class. That's not saying much; it was easy to be popular at that age. All you had to do was wear your hair in French braids, tell your friends your parents let you drink grape soda every night at dinner, and take any dare. I stood in a bucket of hot water for five minutes without having to pee. I ate four New York System wieners (with onions) in one sitting. I cut my own bangs and- bam!- I was queen of the class.
As a result I was invited on sleepovers practically every weekend, and it was there that I cheated. I skipped the séances and the Ouija board. I crept into my sleeping bag with a flashlight, zipped it up tight, and pored through those contraband books. I fell into Narnia. I tessered with Meg and Charles Wallace; I lived under the floorboards with Arrietty and Pod.
I think it was precisely because those books were forbidden that they lived on in me long past the time that they should have. For whatever reason, I didn't outgrow them. I was constantly on the lookout for the secret portal, the unmarked door that would lead me to another world.
I never thought I would actually find it.”
― Melanie Gideon, Valley of the Moon

tags: another-world, books, childhood, lux, popularity

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#28

“Only people who have a world-historical perspective can change history. The average person has only a domestic, ahistorical perspective. Look at social media. It’s full of people without a clue what’s going on. Immense historical forces have been unleashed all around them, and all they care about is posting their brain-dead, vacuous observations and their self-pitying, whining woe-is-me statements about how shitty their lives are and how no one understands them. As well as countless memes and selfies, of course. You just have to love those lolcats on skateboards, right, hoomans? They are forever trapped in their parochial little world of trivia. Why are our books so unsuccessful? It’s because they announce, with the volume of Stentor at Troy, a world-historic agenda, but we are surrounded by pygmies who stare at us like cows in line at the abattoir.”
― Joe Dixon, The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

tags: bread-and-ciruses, popularity, radicals, social-media, the-internet, trivia, world-historic

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#29

“Social media is the supreme triumph of the commonplace, the undiluted voice of the commonplace, the perfect means of viral transmission of the commonplace. All excellence is tracked down and exterminated. The commonplace infects everything. It grows like weeds everywhere and strangles all beautiful, exceptional flowers. All tall poppies are all cut down.”
― Joe Dixon, The Mandarin Effect: The Crisis of Meaning

tags: cancel-culture, excellence, mediocrity, outsiders, popularity, social-media, tall-poppies

1 likes

#30

“I would rather be ostracized than assimilated! I read recently that my greatest accomplishment was my unerring ability to make myself unpopular.”
― Reinhold Messner, My Life at the Limit

tags: independence, popularity

1 likes

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