Popularity Quotes

• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

  

  Will Durant
  • Change
  • Governments
  • Caution

• In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Popularity
  • Convictions
  • Deserving

• Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Good
  • Society
  • Knows

• The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Create
  • Cheat
  • Dishonesty

• My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Political
  • Careers
  • Degrees

• In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Phenomenon
  • Popularity
  • Masculine

• Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Thinking
  • Sports
  • Athlete

• If you have a live reputation and your popularity is proven that way, then you're bound to get signed up because they see all those people buying those tickets and they think some of those people will buy those records, and that's what their business is primarily about.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Business
  • Records
  • Reputation

• You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Popularity

• I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last song.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Song
  • Popularity

• You know and I know that as soon as it's done, you have to get it out there. You want what's best for it. And especially in owning a label, which some days is the greatest thing for me and in some days is my demise because you see the truth and the work that goes into things and you see things happen and you see things not happen, and all you want in this world of currency right now is popularity, that's it!

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • World
  • Done
  • Currency

• I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Lines

• 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
  • Believe
  • Desire
  • Popularity

• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Courage
  • Lose
  • Meaning

• A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured over in a manner not dissimilar to that of pop stars today. What he wore, what he said, what postures he adopted during speeches were all worked out carefully... Many people began to separate Hitler from the Nazi Party, enabling Hitler's popularity to remain high whilst the popularity of the Nazi Party fell.

  

  Alison Kitson
  • Leadership
  • Popularity
  • Hitler

• It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Pleasure
  • Human Nature
  • Cafes

• Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Popularity

• Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Good
  • Geniuses
  • Rock Music

• Popularity? It's glory's small change.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Change
  • Glory
  • Popularity

• Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Piece
  • Popularity
  • Out Of Date

• Competence can step in where popularity cannot go.

  

  Jordan Peterson
  • Step
  • Popularity
  • Competence

• Most of the players have grown to like the course more and more. I think it helps that we don't change locations. The Players has grown in popularity because it stays in Jacksonville. The fact the Players Championship doesn't move around has helped people accept the golf course. If you want to be a good player, you'd better learn to like it.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Golf

• One reason of Andy Griffith Show popularity is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Popularity

• Popularity for a King is much more important among those he does not know than among those he does.

  

  Anne Edwards
  • Important
  • King
  • Popularity

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