Quotes About Reputation

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

They say he missed that whore.

After all, academic reputations were at stake. Home cooking was associated with women, which was bad enough, and housework, which was fatal. Luckily

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

The seniors look my way before they leave. One girl, not the cheerleader, nods her head, and says, Way to go. I hope you're OK. With hours left in the school year, I have suddenly become popular. Thanks to the big mouths on the lacrosse team, everybody knew what happened before sundown. Mom took me to the hospital to stitch up the cut on my hand. When we got home, there was a message on the machine from Rachel. She wants me to call her.

I would be lucky to get an invitation to my own funeral, with my reputation.

One half was sad because I had damaged my reputation. The other half was happy because I had damaged my reputation.

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

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

It becomes easier to handle controversies when you are a part of the film industry. I just take them with a smile.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.

Paradoxically, the best way to attract good work is by doing good work.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

A man is known by the company he keeps.