Sayings About A Reputation

#1. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

#2. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#3. Since humans are social animals, you're basically only as good as your reputation.

A.D. Aliwat

#4. I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Stanley Kubrick

#5. Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

Paul Stamets

#6. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.

William Giraldi

#7. I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

Rex Stout

#8. Vanity and prejudice have as usual played havoc with the truth, and Mr. Topper's reputation has been tossed into a furnace of frantically wagging tongues. The

Thorne Smith

#9. They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Daryl Gates

#10. Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Terry Pratchett

#11. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.

Anne Osterlund

#12. Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.

Sasha Grey

#13. The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think ... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

Tom Verlaine

#14. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Karl Lagerfeld

#15. Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

Hock G. Tjoa

#16. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Henry Walter Bates

#17. A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

Ryan Lilly

#18. A good name is better than precious ointment.

Solomon

#19. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson

#20. Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.

Jeff Cooper

#21. The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

William Shakespeare

#22. I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!

Joe Lieberman

#23. I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

Jonathan Coe

#24. Reputation never has very much to do with reality.

James S.A. Corey

#25. English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

Paul Scott

#26. If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

Xavier Niel

#27. Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Thomas Paine

#29. Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily.

Yann Martel

#30. Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.

Alvan Macauley

#31. Being indie means being artistic and finding your own eccentric identity. The name of the game for being an indie kid is to never admit you are one. If you do, it goes against your beliefs against labeling, thus making you a hypocrite.

Alexandra Robbins

#32. Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

Chris Murray

#33. A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

George Eastman

#34. Did I tell you I have a reputation for brains?

Amelia Earhart

#35. Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime ...

Laetitia Pilkington

#36. Kaz didn't look remotely entertained. "The Ravkan king lets you negotiate for him in matters of state?" he asked skeptically.
"Occasionally," said Sturmhond. "Especially if less than savory personages are involved. You have a reputation, Mister Brekker."
"So do you.

Leigh Bardugo

#37. a man gets burnt out long before his reputation.

Terry Hayes

#38. Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.

Calvin Miller

#39. I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Richard P. Feynman

#40. He'd turned to go, then stopped, facing his brother. He'd said in a low voice, "I'm glad we're friends again."
"Friends?" Vladimir's smile had lifted to a grin. "We're not friends, man. We're brothers.

Jennie Lucas

#41. A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.

Alan W. Watts

#42. Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

Damon Lindelof

#43. Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.

Michael Josephson

#44. Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Sophia Bush

#45. Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

Jonathan Swift

#46. A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

Orson Scott Card

#47. Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Derek Jacobi

#48. What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Siegbert Tarrasch

#49. For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Robert Benchley

#50. Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Richard Whately

#51. My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

Vikram Seth

#52. The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Lord Byron

#53. The serious scientific public trusted him implicitly and consequently had no need to read him. If those people were to start getting critical, no further progress would be possible. They would spend a whole year over every page.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#54. Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

Will Self

#55. A good reputation may be worth millions,
but a good character is worth all the riches of the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. A vague worry has started alongside my self-satisfaction: I have established, with amazing rapidity, a reputation for maniacal, self-destructive courage.

William Boyd

#57. I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Douglas Adams

#58. Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

Charles M. Schwab

#59. It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

Mikhail Gorbachev

#60. When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#61. I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.

Stan Lee

#62. My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

Leonard Cohen

#63. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Gautama Buddha

#64. I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

Shahrukh Khan

#65. How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

W. H. Auden

#66. A very practical way to control who can interact with you, your credentials and your reputation is to partition 'you' into the multiple personas formed from pseudonyms. This

David Birch

#67. A poet could kill the dead.

Cameron Conaway

#68. Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

Alexander Smith

#69. I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Thomas Hughes

#70. If i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

Henry Rollins

#71. I don't think I'm supposed to boss other people around just because I'm a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I've seen it happen. I don't call those people out - they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Dolly Parton

#72. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

#73. I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave."
I yawn. "So very long as that?"
When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect.

R.L. LaFevers

#74. When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

John Tillotson

#75. Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Jude Morgan

#76. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away.

Oscar Wilde

#77. Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.

Charmian Clift

#78. As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

Jo Ann Emerson

#79. I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

C.L.R. James

#80. Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover

Sophie Angmering

#81. When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.

Leora Tanenbaum

#82. When your LinkedIn Profile doesn't sync with your Facebook persona, you are on a verge of sinking your brand

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#83. Personal Branding is the combination of one's skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#84. Traditionally, with a DJ set, you just go hear DJ that has a good reputation and let the DJ take you somewhere. It was up to the DJ what he wanted to play. Typically in dance music, people didn't know most of the songs a DJ played.

A-Trak

#85. How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying

Oswald Chambers

#86. The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

H.L. Mencken

#87. I'm hoping that maybe I'll start getting a reputation for being a guy who can be pretty versatile. That's the challenge and the fun of being an actor. I love getting to play and do different things.

Tyler Labine

#88. There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Jeffrey Deitch

#89. We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Warren Buffett

#90. I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

Stevie Jackson

#91. A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Kevin Hart

#92. Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

Chuck Palahniuk

#93. In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos

#94. Damn them both! Mr. Kent here while he was supposed to be helping me - much like he accused Mr. Braddock of earlier! And Mr. Braddock pretending to be concerned about my reputation, kissing me in a brothel, and then suggesting that I forced him? Ridiculous.

Tarun Shanker

#95. I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

Willard Scott

#96. An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Tacitus

#97. The bloodied angel must have one hell of a reputation because despite his condition, the perfectly healthy and beefy Burnt slams his sword back into his sheath. He

Susan Ee

#98. In international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

#99. But haven't you noticed that with guys like Jude, a girl just doesn't care about her reputation?

Nicole Williams

#100. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Ursula Burns