{"quotes":[{"text":"As a CIO, you are the first to step into traffic, to stand alone during a period of change before people come on board. That takes personal courage...Traditionally, in IT, we like to please. But IT is not a popularity contest; it's a reality show where we often have to deliver tough information...Being a CIO means having the courage not to cut corners to please a stakeholder and delivering the hard message that this is not a risk we're willing to take.","author":"Martha Heller","tags":["courage","popularity","risk"],"id":7643,"author_id":"Martha+Heller"},{"text":"Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bell","catastrophe","fame","good-talk","infamous","interesting","name","popularity","quotation","ringing","saying-something","slow-and-steady","something","sound","speech","talking","your-name"],"id":10211,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.","author":"Hannah Lillith Assadi","tags":["hannah-lillith-assadi","instant-gratification","past","popularity","rich","sonora","wealthy"],"id":19659,"author_id":"Hannah+Lillith+Assadi"},{"text":"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["battleground","biase","biased","buttons","censor","censorship","circus","control","controlled","corruption","democracy","fake","government","government-corruption","guilty","illusion","influence","influential","innocent","internet","judge","judgment","manipulate","manipulated","net","orchestrate","perceive","perception","popular","popular-opinion","popularity","public-opinion","regulated","regulation","silence","skewed","slanted","trolls","viewpoint","war","web"],"id":22199,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Ralph Waldo Emerson.","author":"H.W. Brands","tags":["civilization","culture","internet","popularity","social-media","technology"],"id":22574,"author_id":"H.W.+Brands"},{"text":"If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.","author":"Dave Hunt","tags":["humanity","popularity"],"id":24321,"author_id":"Dave+Hunt"},{"text":"The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is driven by the size of the largest broadcast. Digital blockbusters are not about a million one-to-one moments as much as they are about a few one-to-one-million moments.","author":"Derek Thompson","tags":["derek-thompson","digital-marketing","marketing","popularity","viral"],"id":26224,"author_id":"Derek+Thompson"},{"text":"To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.","author":"Aristophanes","tags":["elections","falsehood","government","hypocrisy","politics","popularity","promises"],"id":27400,"author_id":"Aristophanes"},{"text":"The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.","author":"Colleen Chen","tags":["bookish","books","dictator","intelligence","learning","logic","monarchy","nerds","nerdy","popularity","propaganda","reading","thinking","twisted"],"id":31573,"author_id":"Colleen+Chen"},{"text":"Sweet wine makes drunk, sour wine (insult) is 'tetelestai'. Life is not about what we have done and become, but how God to be fully glorified.","author":"indonesia123","tags":["acclaim","acquiescent","admiration","adoration","applaud","arrogance","beauty","biddable","bless","blessing","boast","celebrate","commend","compliant","conceit","conceitedness","deferential","delight","diffident","distinction","docile","drunk","ego","egocentrism","egotism","elegance","eminence","eulogize","exaltation","exaltation-of-god","extol","extolment","fame","fully-paid","gentle","glorify-god","glorify-god-in-everything","glorify-self-vs-glorify-god","glorifying-god","glorifying-god","glory","glory-of-god","glory-of-life","glory-of-man","glory-of-me","glory-of-one","glory-of-self","glory-of-self-vs-glory-of-god","glory-of-the-world","glory-to-god","glory-to-self","god","god-s-exaltation","god-s-glorification","god-s-glory","god-s-grandeur","god-s-greatness","god-s-honor","god-s-magnificence","god-s-majesty","god-s-praise","grandeur","grandeur-of-god","greatness","greatness-of-god","honor","honor-of-god","hubris","humble","humbleness","humility","immodesty","imperiousness","insult","it-is-finished","kudos","lamblike","last-words-of-jesus","life","lionize","magnificence","magnificence-of-god","magnify","majesty","majesty-of-god","marvel","meek","mild","modest","modesty","narcissism","nobility","obedient","opulence","pay-tribute-to","phenomenon","pomposity","pompousness","popularity","praise","praise-of-god","prestige","pride","that-glorify-god","rave","recognition","renown","reputation","resplendence","saying-of-jesus-on-cross","self","self-admiration","self-adoration","self-centeredness","self-conceit","self-effacing","self-exaltation","self-extolment","self-glorification","self-glorifying","self-glory","self-glory-vs-god-s-glory","self-honor","self-importance","self-love","self-magnification","self-magnifying","self-opinion","self-praise","self-pride","self-regard","self-respect","self-righteous","self-satisfaction","self-worship","selfishness","smugness","sour-wine","splendor","submissive","superiority","sweet-wine","tame","tetelestai","tractable","unassuming","unprotesting","unresisting","vainglory","vanity","wonder","worship"],"id":41626,"author_id":"indonesia123"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":181,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}