Reputation Quotes
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
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If you want success and longevity for your business, earning a reputation for integrity is crucial. People want to work with people and companies they can trust. Trying to hide a mistake and hope nobody notices or passing the buck does not inspire confidence or respect—from anyone, employees, vendors, or customers alike. Owning up shows integrity and whatever embarrassment you may feel is worth it because in the end people will likely trust you more going forward. It’s not the mistake that is a deal-breaker, it’s being dishonest about it.
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One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
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High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
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My wife would not speak evil of ... anyone ... without cause. Joseph is a liar and not she. That Smith admired and lusted after many men's wives and daughters, is a fact, but they could not help that. They or most of them considered his admiration an insult, and treated him with scorn. In return for this scorn, he generally managed to blacken their reputations - see the case of... Mrs. Pratt, a good, virtuous woman.
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I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.
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Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
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Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.
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The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.
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It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.
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Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
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A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name.
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A reputation is really hard to live down.
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Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
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A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
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One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.
