Quotes About Prestige

it will be when prestige (both public and private) is low that we will be intent upon using the successes of associated others to help restore image.

ìIdleness is an appendix to nobilityî

When we think of a software architect, we think of someone who has power, and who commands respect.

Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence

power often grew from others deciding that you already had power, and an appearance of wealth could give that.

Today, kids want to be famous athletes, movie stars, rock stars, beauty queens, or CEOs because that is where the fame, money, and prestige are. That is the reason it is so hard to motivate kids in school today. They know that professional success is no longer solely linked to academic success

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.

To superficial minds, the vices of the great seem at all times agreeable.

It is essential for the happiness of couples and the single that one regularly rehearses the very many good reasons why it's OK to spend one's life without anyone. Only once singlehood has completely equal prestige with its alternative can we ensure that people will be free in their choices and hence join couples for the right reasons; because they love another person, rather than because they are terrified of remaining single.

The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I'd kill to get into Stanford." A you've-got-to-be-kidding laugh snorted across one of the dining tables at the headmaster's house. "Start playing football," whispered another voice. "Then they'll kill to get you.

Goudas are not only attitude by born.but even with reputation, prestige, value, humanity,. moreover beautiful not oly in face same as in heart .......!

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

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.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Our education generally tries to train people to have knowledge as a possession, by and large commensurate with the amount of property or social prestige they are likely to have in later life.

why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?

36 bottles of Amontillado—Duff Gordon's V.O.; 36 bottles, white wine—Valmur, 1934 [Chablis]; 36 bottles, port—Fonseca, 1912; 36 bottles, claret—Château Léoville Poyferré, 1929; 24 bottles, whisky—Fine Highland Malt; 12 bottles, brandy—Grande Fine Champagne, 1874 [66 years old, same as Churchill]; 36 bottles of champagne—Pommery et Greno, 1926 [Pol Roger, however, remained his favorite].

Stature [was] a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.

The problem was that the Duke wanted status not a job, to be recognised rather than to contribute.