POPULARITY QUOTES
quotations about popularity
One reason for the focus on popularity is that popular children are often seen as models of prosocial skills and behaviors, and thus that much about social competence could be learned from them. Reality, however, has turned out to be more complex. Not all popular children are uniformly prosocial. Sometimes aggression, bullying, or manipulative behaviors are also correlated with popularity.
ANTONIUS H. N. CILLESSEN & AMY D. BELLMORE
"Social Skills and Social Competence in Interactions With Peers", The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
Popularity is a hasty and a busy talker; she catches hold of topics and offers them to fame, without giving herself time to reflect whether they are true or false.
ANONYMOUS
"Popularity in Authorship", The Atheneum, 1825
I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to Joseph Reed, December 15, 1775
Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
I admit that extensive popularity is a pretty certain indication that a writer is not utterly devoid of every species of merit, though it by no means follows that he is necessarily superior to his less favored rivals.
DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON
Literary Chit-Chat
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
The Spanish Drama
There is nothing which a prudent man must shun more carefully than living with a view to popularity and giving serious thought to the things esteemed by the multitude, instead of making sound reason his guide of life, so that, even if he must gainsay all men and fall into disrepute and incur danger for the sake of what is honourable, he will in no wise choose to swerve from what has been recognized as right.
BASIL OF CAESAREA
On Greek Literature
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.
LAUREN GREENFIELD
Girl Culture
The shortest and most direct road to popularity is for a man to be the same that he wishes to be taken for.
SOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
If a man would have popularity he must pay for it--sometimes at a fearful price.
H. M. GALLAHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
From a psychological perspective, there are two kinds of popularity -- "sociometric popularity" and "perceived popularity". Sociometric popularity is where people become popular through prosocial behaviour -- they are always helpful towards others and are not egocentric. Perceived popularity is where individuals have very high levels of social visibility, but they are rarely liked as people.
GRAHAM JONES
"Popular People Do Not Get 'Unfriended' Even if Abusive", Business 2 Community, May 9, 2016
The problem with popularity is that the accelerator on popular opinion has been pressed to the floor. Without overusing the metaphor, the road of culture is windy and treacherous, so there will always be those who end up sailing off a cliff to be forgotten in obsolescence.
CAN AKDENIZ
Popularity: How to Become Famous
To be popular is to be encored today, forgotten tomorrow.
ADA ISAACS MENKIN
attributed, Day's Collacon
The popular voice has much potency.
AESCHYLUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Popularity is teenage heroin.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
We Are the Ants
Popularity is rigged and can be bought.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
If popularity is not likeability, then what is it?... Popularity in the child and adolescent peer group is a dimension of prestige and visibility. When children or adolescents nominate the most popular peers in their classroom or grade, they name who is highly visible and who they see as prestigious.
ANTONIUS H. N. CILLESEN
"Toward a Theory of Popularity", Popularity in the Peer System
Popularity is power.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you have friends who actually like you, you're popular enough.
E. LOCKHART
Real Live Boyfriends
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI STEVENSON
The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson