Quotes About Prestige

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

We feel that we are at the point of attaining autonomy as we imitate our models of power and prestige. This autonomy, however, is really nothing but a reflection of the illusions projected by our admiration for them. The more this admiration mimetically intensifies, the less aware it is of its own mimetic nature. The more "proud" and "egotistic" we are, the more enslaved we become to our mimetic models.

pulled out my Valery Gergiev trump card and said I would have to call him about getting another hotel. There are many ways in which a soprano relies upon the guidance of a conductor, and not all of them are confined to the stage. As a result of dropping the most powerful name in Russian music today, I got a window and a view.

Likewise, the division between popular and serious work was a scheme perpetrated by academics in need of creating a false pantheon of living writers when it became impossible to come up with fresh dissertation topics (to earn degrees and prestige) concerning the writers in the true pantheon, who had been analyzed to exhaustion.

giving with display is not giving, but trading. I give you money, you give me prestige. Philanthropy that does not degrade is done so quietly not even the rescued learns the name of his rescuer.

LET US STOP IMITATING!!! Piracy and imitations of designs hamper the development and expansion of export trade. It is regrettable that there are quite a few cases of piracy in the People's Republic. Piracy injures the Chinese people's international prestige, causes the boycott of Chinese goods, and makes Chinese designers lose interest in making creative efforts.

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful and powerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is the revelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then our whole way of seeing the world is turned upside down… all values are transformed… God refuses to play games of power and prestige on human terms.

Among the many unsurprising facts of life that, when taken in aggregate, ultimately spell out the doom of our species is this: People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention.

Earl Roland had prospered in the last ten years—under Queen Isabella and, later, her son Edward III—and he wanted the world to know it, as rich and powerful men generally did. In

Privée de pont, l'une des plus grandes villes d'Angleterre mourrait et le prieuré, qui était son poumon, verrait décroître son prestige jusqu'à n'être plus qu'un avant-poste isolé au fin fond de la campagne, où quelques moines continueraient à accomplir leurs dévotions dans le désert sonore d'une cathédrale décrépite.

Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

The reputation of power IS power.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

SIR FREDERICK FROWN

50th and 58th Streets came to be known as Vanderbilt