Quotes about Popularity
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good.
— Carl Jung
Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.
— Tucker Max
Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.
— Tina Fey
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.
— John Mayer
The negative characters made me very popular but were getting too monotonous.
— Sudha Chandran
I'm on Twitter, and I have over 10,000 followers. Which is pretty modest compared to Charlie Sheen.
— Paul Allen
I've talked to Bill Clinton - he's the ultimate rock star; no one's more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don't get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.
— Jay-Z
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
— John Mayer
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
— Charlie Munger
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
— Bishop TD Jakes