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“Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.”

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“So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that.”

Fame Popularity Masses Individuals Being Popular Becoming Famous

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Good choice,' Laura Said. 'Our neighbour, Mrs Crabtree, came round this morning and she put it best. Her theory is that fame is like a bubble. It looks gorgeous on the outside, as if it's been painted with pretty colours, but when you pop it there's nothing there. She said that life, love and friendship are what matters, and that what you do is more important than what you show.”

Book:Rendezvous in Russia

Source: Rendezvous in Russia

“The only reason i love the courage of these individuals is that they take their family members as astray chicks, and the reason i don't want to belong to this category is because those chicks are far more important to me than trivial wealth and fame.”

Wealth Courage Fame Game Michael Bassey Johnson Illuminati

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?”

Internet Fame Celebrity Internet Privacy

Book:Between the Raindrops

Source: Between the Raindrops

“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302”

Humor Fame Pathos

Book:Colors Insulting to Nature

Source: Colors Insulting to Nature

“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!”

“Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.”

Lost Wealth Fame Logic Riches Man Wishes Airy Castle Ditches

Book:Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

Source: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”

Fame Food Chain

Book:The Cuckoo's Calling

Source: The Cuckoo's Calling

“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.”

Book:Snow Falling on Cedars

Source: Snow Falling on Cedars

“For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.”

Fame Introversion

Author:Isaac Newton