#Fame

"Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms."

"Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence."

"Money is not equal for all people. A strong personal brand adds more lift and leverage. One dollar from me may buy a soda from a car dealership, but one dollar from Justin Bieber may get him a Ferrari. And they'd pay him to drive away."

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

"The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day."

"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."

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

"What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?"

"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."

"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

"But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards."

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

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

"God rewards every act of obedience to His Will."

"Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous."

"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."

"Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on."

"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."

"€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff."