“Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.” CommonIssuesFameExcellenceReputationClimbsMediocrity Author:Baltasar Gracian
“I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.” RealSchoolValuesClassIssuesMiddleFameUnderstoodMiddle ClassLots Of MoneyReal ValueMiddle Class Family Author:Suresh Raina
“If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.” PeopleIfsKindNamesVoiceSilenceMoralIssuesHeardFameImportancePrivilegeBetrayalObligationUrgent Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler.” MatterIssuesSonKingsFameGentlemanNobilityStrawsPatentsBourbon Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.” PeopleSelfUseVoiceIssuesFameAppreciateBiggerStartingDialogueTopicsPromotionSelf Promotion Author:Questlove
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.” WayMovingIssuesFameBlindPursuit Author:T.I.