Reputation Quotes - Page 21

• Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Issues, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Men, Rewards

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anxiety, Solar System

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.423

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• One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Privilege, Surprising

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Character, Judging

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• Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Quality

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• Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

  Agnes Repplier

  Revenge, Forever, Misused Words

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Successful, Games, Chess Game

  Norbert Wiener (1953). “Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth”

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• There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige

  Abraham Maslow

  Achievement, Independence, Desire

  Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Lulu.com

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• If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.

  Philip Massinger

  Suicide, Courses, Ifs

  Philip Massinger, John Philip Kemble (1814). “A New Way to pay Old Debts. A comedy in five acts”, p.24

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• My reputation has grown slowly.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Recognition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Different, Pseudonyms

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• The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and rather timid at heart.

  J. B. Priestley

  Heart, Shy, Facts

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• You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

  Elvis Costello

  Summer, New York, Opportunity

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.

  Peter Bogdanovich

  Criticism, Trying, Directors

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• Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Notebook, Art, Future

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• No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Recognition, Curator, Produce

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• America has the greatest reputation in the world for helping others whenever and wherever disaster strikes. Now, more than ever,it's important for us to contribute to those who are in need. Your assistance is really beneficial and will be greatly welcomed and appreciated.

  Bobby Knight

  Helping Others, America, Important

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• Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

  Winslow Homer

  Thinking, Alive

  Winslow Homer, Robert W. Schlageter, Cummer Gallery of Art (1977). “Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville”

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• The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.

  Kim Novak

  People, Special, Rotting

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• The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

  Linus Torvalds

  Feelings, Study, Guilty

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• Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Names, Mind

  Giorgio Vasari (1993). “Lives of the Artists”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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