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“Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.”

World Individual Given Fame Lonely Gifted

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.”

Individual Differences Honor Fame Appraisal

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.”

Believe Individual I Believe Fame Welcome Commanders Arrivals

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.”

“Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.”

Mind Mean Care Today Individual Gone Rich Tomorrow Fame Glory Destruction Bigger Islam Don't Care Riches I Don't Care Doomed Things On My Mind

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.”

Thinking Individual Fame

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.”

Art Form Spirit Artist Individual Pleasure Millions Our Lives Share Talent Sorrow Fame Architect Magnificent Richness Armstrong Great Talent

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.”

People Reality Courses Individual Social Shapes Fame Gains Overcoming Victim Obstacles Manage Recognition Live By Architect Infamous Insurmountable

Author:Albert Bandura

“I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.”

People Looks Persons Courses Individual Pay Effects Example Fame Rewards Limitation Marvelous Marvelous Things

Author:J. K. Rowling

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom