Quotes About Reputation

There are certain filmmakers who look at the kind of work you have been a part of or if you come with a baggage of bad films.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

I have no negative stories about Deutsche Bank, period.

Once you are known, people start banking on you and see if your other projects are successful or not.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

People know me from my social media and television appearances and they'd see through me if I wasn't being honest.

If, as Bayern, you lose 2-0 at Hertha, nobody believes you that you can still be satisfied with the performance.

My mind has been long fixed to bow to the judgment of the world, who will judge me by my acts, and will never take counsel from me as to what that judgment should be.

To seek vindication in the world but to suspect

A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge me. I always remember going up to visit someone in prison, and this woman was sitting there. She was looking at me, growling a bit, and I could imagine what she was thinking: There's a pedophile! Anyway, I later discovered about her character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done.' 'What had she done?' I ask. 'Shoplifting,' says Tam. There is silence.

Hilary's reputation had preceded her, and she found that on her first day she did not receive much of a welcome from her new colleagues. Well, she thought: fuck them. She was only going to be coming in one or two days a week. If that.

What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of social engagement? What happens to the people who want to communicate in depth, individual to individual, in the quiet and permanence of the printed word, and who were shaped by their love of writers who wrote when publication still assured some kind of quality control and literary reputations were more than a matter of self-promotional decibel levels?

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

Este Sr. Nádegas, pai destes três, era um homem bem reputado, apesar de certos maliciosos afirmarem que ele tinha o hábito intestino de jogar fast and loose; e às vezes agoniava-se, o que se atribuía a ter sido mordido por uma tarântula. Tocar gaita-de-foles, de alguma forma, aliviava-o.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

I'm sorry to say that people have written fifty or sixty books about me. I haven't read a single one of them, since I know too much of the subject, and I'm sick and tired of it.

Tutti assomigliamo all'immagine che gli altri hanno di noi.

Todo hombre memorable corre el albur de ser amonedado en anécdotas ['Every memorable man runs the risk of being minted in anecdotes']