Quotes About Popularity

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there is someone in the background saying to him, 'We need more love songs, Ed.'

American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.

Carrie Underwood clearly drove 'The Sound of Music.' For 'Peter Pan,' we had terrific actors but not stars, and we did not do nearly as well.

I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.

From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I don't like to be in the limelight, but it comes with the territory.

With the proliferation of social media, selfies are one of those modern diseases that unfortunately come with the territory, but they are beneficial in getting the word around about the show, and the popularity of 'Death In Paradise' has just exploded.

I never became an actor for people to want to take pictures with me or wanting my autograph. I feel I am nothing more special than the next living soul, but I understand that I work in entertainment, and this attraction comes with the territory.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

With 'The Elder Scrolls', you're looking at a 25-year-running franchise. It has stood the test of the 'Lord of the Rings' movies becoming popular.

A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.

You just never know with movies how they'll be seen in a few years. You have no idea. Like, movies that were super popular when they came out have been forgotten. And other movies - and I put 'Sarah Marshall' in this - kind of weirdly stand the test of time a little bit.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it's a mixed blessing. While it's a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.

If you don't get tested throughout your career, people can forget about you.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

It's a universal phenomenon--if you appear desirable, more members of the opposite sex will desire you. The appearance of popularity automatically raises your popularity. It's not a bad evolutionary system--if you see a potential mate being pursued by members of the opposite sex, it pays to check it out.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.