Reputation Quotes - Page 11

• That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were rather gracious for their propriety than strange for their novelty, and like to serve both for occasions to report and means to remember his argument. Certain sentences of his , somewhat obscure, and as it were presuming upon their capacities will, I fear, make some of them rather admire than commend him. In sum, all is as well as words can make it, and if it please Her Majesty to add deeds, the Bacon may be too hard for the Cook.

  Edward Coke

  Mean, Deeds, May

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• It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Dry Up, People

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• There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Nice, Differences, Careers

  "The Baseball Player as Android" by Bryan Curtis, www.slate.com. February 7, 2009.

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• To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.

  Jesse Helms

  Fashion, Thinking, Dancing

  "Ideas & Trends; The Quotations of Chairman Helms: Race, God, AIDS and More" by Kevin Sack, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2001.

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• Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.

  Robert Graves

  Passion, Age, Principles

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• I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.

  David Blunkett

  Honesty, Sometimes, Built

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  Warren Spahn

  Games, Two, Magic

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• The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

  Geraldo Rivera

  Lying, Media, Down And

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• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Ideas, Support, Entrepreneur

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• The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk and lose the bet?

  Price Pritchett

  Future, Perspective, Entrepreneur

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• Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Taken, Winning, Opportunity

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reflection, Body, Pleasure

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• 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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• If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

  Jennifer Lee

  Want, Nicknames, Ifs

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• A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

  Robert Ruark

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Fields

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• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

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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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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  Sallust

  Law, Bravery, Victory

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