#Fame

"One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did."

"Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable."

"Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink."

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."

"My name is a half an hour early, but my body is on time."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."

"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."

"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

"Why are they all staring?"demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you,"said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous."

"I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty."

"I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it's because people have met you and see you for who you really are. Of course, if you are not a great person, it's better to be famous. But if you have greatness, it's better to not be famous."

"I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame."

"I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell! They ’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!"

"Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter."