Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Popularity is very inconsistent. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. It usually just comes in waves.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.