Reputation Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

  Socrates

  Giving, Soul, Honor

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• I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

  Dylan Moran

  Guy, Comic, Happens

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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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• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Public Opinion

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

  Charles Studd

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• I have had a fairly long life, above all a very happy one, and I think that I shall be remembered with some regrets and perhaps leave some reputation behind me. What more could I ask? The events in which I am involved will probably save me from the troubles of old age. I shall die in full possession of my faculties, and that is another advantage that I should count among those that I have enjoyed. If I have any distressing thoughts, it is of not having done more for my family; to be unable to give either to them or to you any token of my affection and my gratitude is to be poor indeed.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Life, Gratitude, Regret

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• All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Country, Money, Men

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• When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

  Cree-L Kofford

  Sight, Names, Sacred

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• What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Said, Slander

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.102, Wordsworth Editions

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• As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

  William Aitken

  Gaps, Chance, Bigger

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• The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Voice, Conscience

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• Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.

  Wes Fesler

  Littles, Proof, Persons

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• Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.

  Wes Fesler

  Feet, Boots, May

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suicide, Alive, Consideration

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• I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don't want the reputation that I love God, I don't want to write songs about loving God, I don't want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God. When I close my eyes, I want my heart to move. When I close my eyes and I look at Him, I want to feel alive on the inside. I want to look at Him with a fire in my heart and it's real.

  Misty Edwards

  Song, Atheist, Real

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• We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Drug, Guilt

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• Why are you afraid? This is where you get it out of your system: bankruptcy, unfulfilled potential, trashing your reputation, losing it all. And then (because we just can't stop there), you're going to apply some simple analysis to it.You may have nothing to fear after all.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Simple, Overcoming, Analysis

  Danielle LaPorte (2012). “The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms”, p.136, Harmony

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