Quotes About Reputation

theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions

converting celebrity into profit. (No matter how many billions he has, we are still talking about billions.) Somehow he has done this even as a substantial proportion of the population, arguably more than 50 percent, consider him a buffoon if not a menace. What does it say about Trump that he is so undeniably successful by the two measures that matter the most to him—money and fame? And what, pray tell, does it say about us? * * *

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.

Our players aren't our problem. But we are what our record says we are.

Frank Sinatra Jr. has never been particularly popular as a record seller.

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.

Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?

It has to be good to live in Singapore because otherwise, nobody will stand for it.

I am not the worst singer.

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

Ultimately we all only have our reputation, and it is nothing more than a series of small decisions you make every single day.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

Our career wasn't built on putting out hot singles.

I have been accused of many crimes. A TV channel even put up a show called 'Sins of Asin!'

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

It's a great honour that someone like Sir Alex Ferguson goes out of his way to mention my name.

Nobody would dare to show Rajini sir in bad light through a film.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

I am indeed fortunate to work with some reputed directors like Balaji Sakthivel, Sekhar Kammula, and KV Anand sir. Each one of them has a different style, and every day is a learning experience for me.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.