Quotes About Image

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

We do not follow the common practice of talking one-on-one with large institutional investors or analysts, treating them instead as we do all other shareholders. There is no one more important to us than the shareholder of limited means who trusts us with a substantial portion of his or her savings. As I run the company day-to-day — and as I write this letter — that is the shareholder whose image is in my mind.

If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow's rear end.

If you dress like a slob, chances are you probably don't respect yourself that much.

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

Noble in defeat, he (Nixon) was now without grace in victory. I had seen the president show rare courage when others are around him shrank in fear. Since I had come to respect the president for what he was at his best moments, I learned to accept him for what he was at his worst. Loyalty, like love, creates its own image of what we see.

Democracy is not prescribed in the Bible, and Christians can and do live under other political systems. But Christians can hardly fail to love democracy, because of all systems it best assures human dignity, the essence of our creation in God's image.

The child lies unborn in the queen's womb; unformed in his brain is the web of all our doom, as unformed in the minds of all the great lords lies the image of the split Table and of surreptitious swords.

Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero

On clubbers: They were all photographing themselves. In fact, that's all they seemed to be doing. Standing around in expensive clothes, snapping away with phones and cameras. One pose after another, as though they needed to prove their own existence, right there, in the moment. Crucially, this seemed to be the reason they were there in the first place. There was very little dancing. Just pouting and flashbulbs.

Celebrity' is increasingly the only role the media can process,

If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

Gretchen took a beautiful mugshot.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

But I encourage you to swallow your pride and hear your friends out, to look at the image of yourself they're reflecting back to you. It might be useful. It might piss you off.

A bloody hand had left its imprint on a lampshade. Squiggly marks slid down the wall, as if a child had been creating a macabre fingerpainting there. For some reason the image popped into Don's head of a teacher standing before a class, saying, Okay, kiddies, today we're going to fingerpaint. Everyone got paper and blood ready?

You're only as old as your most recent selfie looks.

The difference between a bandit and a patriot is a good press agent.

If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.