Quotes About Popularity

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Everything popular is wrong.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Why is it that everyone likes me, yet no one understands me?

why is it that nobody understands me, and everybody likes me?

with fame I become more, and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Students didn't much like those who verbally or physically beat the crap out of them. But when researchers began measuring aggression alongside perceived popularity, they found an undeniably strong link. Recent studies conclude that aggressive behaviors are now often associated with high social status. Psychologists no longer view aggression as a last-resort tactic of social misfits. Now they see aggression as a means toward social success. (This does not, however, mean it is admired.)

Some girls, of course, can be both popular and nice. But niceness involves treating others as equals […]

Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.

Who even *heard* of gluten till a few years ago?

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.