Reputation Quotes - Page 10

• What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

  Edmund White

  Beautiful, Book, Views

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

  Laurence Housman

  Brother, Benefits, Half

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• It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

  James Payn

  Risk, Stories, Action

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

  Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

  Math, Numbers, Proof

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• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Sanctity, Incapacity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

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• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. 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

  Success, Math, Games

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

  Sidney Howard

  People, Ruins, Drink

  Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Wietse Venema

  Respect, Years, Two

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• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  C. L. R. James

  Movement, Articles, International

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

  Henry Mayhew

  Girl, Ballet, Cases

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

  George William Curtis

  Appreciate, Noble, Deeds

  George William Curtis (1894). “From the Easy Chair”

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• I have not a clue why they sent it to me. As far as I know I have not got a reputation as a receiver of stolen goods.

  Jeremy Paxman

  America, World, Clue

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• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Loss, Men

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• If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Character, Men, People

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• But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

  James Surowiecki

  Taught Us, Self, Worry

  "Bankers Gone Wild" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Wisdom, Peace

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• There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Bad Reputation, Temperament

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• Trust, honesty, humility, transparency and accountability are the building blocks of a positive reputation. Trust is the foundation of any relationship.

  Mike Paul

  Trust, Honesty, Block

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• I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

  Ben Jonson

  Inspirational, Education, Past

  "Volpone and The Alchemist".

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Reading, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

  Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

  Inspirational, Character, World

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• Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, People, Boss

  Sr Rick Warren (1998). “The Power to Change Your Life: Exchanging Personal Mediocrity for Spiritual Significance”, Pastors.com

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