Quotes About Prestige

Status, prestige, authority, degree, licence, credential, badge of office, reputation, manners — all of these marks of social approval mean nothing to the NTs when the issue is the utility of goal-directed action.

La búsqueda de una buena pareja subyace a casi todo lo que realizan los seres humanos, desde entablar amistades hasta despreciar a los competidores, desde la búsqueda de prestigio hasta la motivación para el asesinato.

Young, healthy, and attractive women act on their desires for somewhat older, high-prestige mates, attracting men who might otherwise become mates for older women. Men with status and relative wealth try to fulfill their preferences for youthful, healthy, attractive women.

If you read an essay in Esquire and don't like it, there could be something wrong with the essay. If it's in The New Yorker, on the other hand, and you don't like it, there's something wrong with you.

or the class moron will go on to become the president of the United States—though that's more likely to happen at Harvard or Yale, schools that will pretty much let in anybody.

In place of bottom-of-the-bill humiliation and hand-to-mouth motel living, Roxy Music were now a major draw – and they lived up to it, insisting on staying only in plush hotels and grazing at restaurants with Michelin stars to spare.

Nothing will cut New York but a diamond. ?

Money means a lot of respect. It means a lot of accomplishment and a lot of hard work.

This career affords me the opportunity to accumulate money, power and respect.

Being acknowledged as one of the best is enough for me.

What I want is to be well-respected around all ages and all around the world.

I want to be part of a club that is aiming to be one of the biggest in the world.

Being an All-Star is everything.

To be part of the All-Star group is a great honor. It means a lot.

It's always special to be an All-Star.

It's just an honor to be part of an apparel brand like Reebok.

Arsenal are a massive club, and a club a lot of people would love to play for.

I've got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.

Arsenal will always remain a large club.

mere boy, who dances badly; besides, he has no fortune. And, after all, papa, none of these people have titles. I want, at least, to be a countess like my mother.

And what is power without recognition? Nothing.

La cuestión del vestido es, por otra parte, de gran importancia para quienes quieren aparentar que tienen lo que no tienen, porque es a menudo el mejor medio de poseerlo más adelante.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Nothing in the room was cheap, but none of it was exactly desirable either.