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Quotes About Notability

When I'm on, people watch; people pay attention.
~ Kevin Owens
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
~ Zach LaVine
It is strange to find ourselves people of consequence.
~ Wallace Stegner
I don't know any celebrities. I know a lot of people that most people have never heard of.
~ Robert Christgau
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.
~ Mark F. LaMoure
Do something better and different that people know you by your work not by your name.
~ Jarman Sandhu
Hr. Oftedal holder en stilling som mangen minister kunne misunne ham. På ti år har han drevet det til å bli en av Norges nevneverdigheter, – og det i ti bevegede år, hvori større skikkelser enn hans er falt uten å huskes mer, og større evner og krefter enn hans har kjempet uten å vinne.
~ Knut Hamsun
No one who is unmemorable is going to be chosen for an important job, because one cannot select what one cannot remember.
~ Jeffrey Pfeffer
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
~ Walter Cronkite
if you have a sandwich at the local deli named after you, you've been somewhat influential. If you have the entire world counting years from the date of your birth, it's safe to say you've had an impact.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.
~ Graeme Murphy
It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.
~ Cenk Uygur
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.
~ Mukesh Ambani
I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.
~ Svetlana Kuznetsova
Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.
~ Rod McKuen
Before becoming a notable writer, one studies and reads the classic and academic writings to qualify such a level of notability and authenticity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Naturally, I stay an excellent friend of mine than whoever else since I feel the joy of fame with notability, no matter whatever it levels and ranges; it needs not a certificate.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
No one can define and execute exactly how Wikipedia is run by rules, tools, consensus, votes, or hegemony since a duffer defeats the best lawyer of the world on its platforms. Thus, one cannot pass notability even it qualifies that; whereas, Jimmy Wales enjoys and profits such twenty-four hours of each day and night Wiki warfare of fools and idiots.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The vote is a democracy; it doesn't establish notability; it gives power. Factually, the number of votes may give fame; however, it doesn't show notability; whereas, literary, academic, and such figures' reviews establish notability as its precise context.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall of Famer George Kell.
~ George Kell
I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.
~ Peter Riegert
For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.
~ Sandi Toksvig
In October 2015 Emily Temple-Wood, one of the site's long-standing editors, told the Atlantic magazine that she had identified almost 4400 female scientists who met Wikipedia's inclusion standards but did not have a page. For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.
~ Sandi Toksvig