The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Source: Advice to his wife Anna
-- Gustav Mahler, (Jul 7 1860-1911), Austrian composer, conductor; He is noted for his ten symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism.