Quotes About Reputation

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?" "Theirs.

Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen and three boys, Larry, Timmy, and Dale, and lives in a nice house in Montclair, N. J. That's me. Then there's the one you read about in the papers who is a kind of a comic-strip character, like Li'l Abner or Joe Palooka.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

No matter how serious the obligation, a star is more of a star if he never arrives. Absence is his forte. The question of whether he'll show up gives the event a ceaseless undercurrent of suspense. But a true star never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actors who need to seek attention.

Turing knew from personal experience that it didn't matter who you really were – it mattered only what others thought about you. According to Turing, in the future computers would be just like gay men in the 1950s. It won't matter whether computers will actually be conscious or not. It will matter only what people think about it. The

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

The whole world could praise Song Rongzi and it wouldn't make him exert himself; the whole world could condemn him and it wouldn't make him mope. He drew a clear line between the internal and the external, and recognized the boundaries of true glory and disgrace.

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you.

Women didn't have the luxury men did—men could take lovers as much as they liked. But women always bore the consequences, either in the form of a baby or a ruined reputation, or both. Even if none of that mattered, Ada knew herself well enough to understand that she couldn't take a man to her bed just for physical pleasure.

You might even say their bark is as bad as their bite.

Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Ruf und Charakter sind nicht ein und dasselbe. Sie sind radikal anders. Ruf ist das, was andere von Ihnen denken, wahrend Charakter ist, was Gott uber dich weiß. Menschen k

Siempre prestar mucha atención a cómo una persona habla acerca de otras personas a usted, porque eso es exactamente lo que él / ella va a hablar acerca de usted a otras personas. Es axiomático que quien cotillea a usted siempre chismes acerca de usted. mantenerse alejado de chismosos!

Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I don't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What's yours?

They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine.

Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

I am better than my reputation.