Popularity contest, dangerous, buy something at the peak of popularity — Howard Marks
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. — Orson Welles
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. — John Tyler
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. — Oscar Wilde
TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS. — Jenny Holzer
Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself. — Mike Murdock
Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective. — Brian Eno
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity. — Heinrich Mann
It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last. — Dusty Springfield
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. — Don Murray
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them. — Queen Rania of Jordan
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards? — Jay Leno
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. — Thomas Carlyle
Short Popularity Contest Quotes
Investment success, position, uncomfortable, popular opinion — Howard Marks
Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader. — Rick Warren
If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. — William Penn
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. — Abraham Lincoln
It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons. — Shimon Peres
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. — Mark Twain
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. — Howard Cosell
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. — Julius Erving
Popularity Contest Image Quotes
Do not exchange your dignity for popularity.
Contest Quotes
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. — Ulysses S. Grant
Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit.
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in. — Lyndon B. Johnson
There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. — Morihei Ueshiba
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. — Rowan Atkinson
The desire for security and the fear of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. — E. O. Wilson
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. — Abraham Lincoln
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big. — Dorian Yates
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
Contestant Quotes
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. — Robert D. Hare
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — Daniel Webster
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. — Samuel Adams
Life is a giant popularity contest
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title — Robin Sharma
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. — Jeremy Collier
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. — Frank Sinatra
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Jay Haley
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. — John Steinbeck
You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap. — Norm MacDonald
I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest. — Jane Seymour
It's Not About Popularity Quotes
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. — Steven Spielberg
The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating. — Jerzy Kosinski
I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.' — David McCullough
Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it! — Gary Allan
It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now. — Cory Booker
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing. — John Gimlette
There's no doubt about it, earmarks are not very popular. There are good earmarks and bad earmarks. The good earmarks are the ones I get for my district. — Anthony Weiner
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. — Robin S. Sharma
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. — Billy Bragg
Being Popular Quotes
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. — Marie Antoinette
I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless. — Whitney M. Young
Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool. — Samuel L. Jackson
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors. — Chamath Palihapitiya
So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be. — Waylon Jennings
Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground — Demi Lovato
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need. — John Henry Newman
I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production. — Phil Anselmo
Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches. — Saul Bellow
I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests. — Clarence Thomas
A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway. — Marianne Williamson
Beating Newt Gingrich in a popularity contest is like beating Stephen Hawking in 'Dancing with the Stars.' — Bill Maher
You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead. — Jack Welch
I'm not here to win a popularity contest. I'm here to work and have a career. Let the haters hate. I'm ready for the criticism. — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, after B.B. King, to the total dismay of my fellow Ramones. — Dee Dee Ramone
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. — Tab Hunter
In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong. — Humphrey B. Neill
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline. — Anna Deavere Smith
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest. — Al Gore
The presidency is more than a popularity contest. — Al Gore
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. — Susan Estrich
I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest? — Roger Moore
Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest. — William Devane
Art has never been a popularity contest. — James Levine
Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided. — Trent Reznor
Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?. — Matthew McConaughey
Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked. — Lois Wyse
It seems to me that our presidential elections have turned more into a popularity contest than a real analysis about who really should be President of the United States. — Danny Strong
In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're laughing or they're not laughing, that's the only gauge you really have. But with TV and movies and everything, it's like "Well, did you get a meeting at so-and-so?" and "So-and-so's really hot right now," which is all the stuff I'm probably still not used to. — Rachel Dratch
I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job. — Lynne Tillman
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. — Dawoud Bey
We are living in a culture that if you criticize immorality you could be branded as a "bigot". I am going to lose a lot of support just by saying this. I am not a politician and I am not running a popularity contest. My job is to defend our world from Islam. You asked why the westerners convert to Islam and I must tell the truth as I see it. If that offends anyone, let him be offended. — Ali Sina
The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe. — Rutherford B. Hayes
All language is a popularity contest. — Erin McKean
Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.' — Craig Ferguson
I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old. — D. L. Hughley
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 R. Ford
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh
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