it’s all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent.

Its like a sort of internet Ren Fair. Its like Dungeons & Dragons but for cool people who have got friends.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The...

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and...

To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.

Mozilla’s popularity has gone from almost zero to double digits, so they have had to deal with a lot of sudden attention. Since Mozilla has become popular, people have been looking for more vulnerabilities.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

I didn’t go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

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”.

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.

So here’s the deal: I speak up in class, I get sent to office. Megan speaks up in class, she’s a “strong, assertive model student.”I post a few flyers saying that the vending machines on...

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law...

When a president’s popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.

Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don’t crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.

Don’t be special.” That’s what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.”[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

Database archiving is gaining in popularity, but I think there is confusion in the terminology that has not helped to differentiate active archiving from simple data backup.

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked.

Do not be a “go along, get along” person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think...

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

Don’t feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is...

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...

But I don’t think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness...

A weaker yen is definitely positive for Mazda and other automakers. Mazda’s earnings are also helped by the rising popularity of its vehicles.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Girls like you can’t understand,” Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn’t know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a...

Be a star not a diva!

I must admit that when I chose the name, ‘vitamine,’ I was well aware that these substances might later prove not to be of an amine nature. However, it was necessary for me to choose...

Your crown is in the place that has the least crowd

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

Don’t try to make yourself marketable, you’ll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you’ll be at the top.

With the popularity of talk radio and it coming back to Portland, it was great to see him make an impact. He was probably the last person you’d think to see wake up at 6...

If these incidents are repeated and they happen frequently, it could have a more serious effect on the president’s popularity and credibility.

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...

The saddest thing I have ever experienced is watching a fellow nerd I’ve known forever and befriended, trying to unnerdify themselves. It was painful because that great geeky personality I loved so much is hidden...

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Darwin’s theory was received in Russia with profound sympathy. While in Western Europe it met firmly established old traditions which it had first to overcome, in Russia its appearance coincided with the awakening of our...

Steve deserves a lot of credit for the popularity of tennis today. He has brought the sport into so many people’s lives. Whether through the launch of the Tennis Channel, or through the thousands of...

So remember those who win the gameLose the love they sought to gainIn debitures of quality and dubious integrityTheir small-town eyes will gape at youIn dull surprise when payment dueExceeds accounts received at seventeen