Reputation Quotes - Page 23

• Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

  David Mumford

  Math, Lasts, Esoteric

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• Never risk your reputation on a single shot, for if you miss the loss is irreparable.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Loss, Missing, Risk

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• If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Competition, Honest, Beats

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• Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love You, Enemy, Ruins

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• Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

  Ivan Misner

  Jobs, Powerful, People

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• What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

  Abraham Cowley

  Age, My Own, Known

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.27

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• Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wisdom, Song, Idols

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.43, Booklassic

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• Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

  Erik Qualman

  Strong, Integrity, Thinking

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• Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.

  Erik Qualman

  Dying, Privacy

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• I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

  John Balance

  Believe, Mystery, Destroying

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• Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Evil, Vices, May

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

  Iain Pears

  Blow, Men, Breaths

  Iain Pears (1999). “AN Instance of the Fingerpost”, p.404, Penguin

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Persistence

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• It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

  John George Nicolay

  House, Term, Representatives

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Running, Knowing

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• Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

  Ken Baumann

  Mistake, Shakes, Hard

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• Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.

  Napoleon Hill

  Integrity, Character, Looks

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.16, Penguin

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• Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Book, Responsibility, Character

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• I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom religion is most important.This I cannot apologize for. I’m sorry but it is unacceptable to watch my mother crying because of this. I think everyone who has a family will understand the pain we are going through now.If you don’t like me, you can just tell me to my face. Don’t come near my parents.

  Shila Amzah

  Mother, Sorry, Pain

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• The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Country, Character

  "Letters".

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• A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

  Louis Menand

  Risk, Curiosity, Requirements

  "Browbeaten". www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader.

  Douglas Conant

  People, Leader, Wells

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• Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps the romantic intrigue smoldering. With Hope's Folly, Linnea Sinclair builds on a secure reputation as a leading fashioner of science fiction romance. She straddles and blends these genres with a unique bravura and wit.

  Philip K. Jason

  War, Passion, Unique

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