All Quotes By Tag: Popularity
“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.”
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“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”
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“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.”
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“Popularity is teenage heroin.”
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“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I’d rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
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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]”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Do what’s right, not what’s popular.”
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“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.”
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“Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded”
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“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.”
“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.”
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