Reputation Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Practice, Want

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.163

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• All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Cutting, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

  Robert Greene

  Artist, Gossip, Crafts

  Robert Greene (2010). “The Art Of Seduction”, p.27, Profile Books

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• To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

  Edna Buchanan

  Daughter, Editors, Names

  Edna Buchanan (2009). “The Corpse Had a Familiar Face”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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• There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.

  Richard Branson

  Night, Offering, Names

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• If you fellows have been hunted from one end of the country to the other as I have been, you’ll understand what a bad man’s reputation is built on. I’ve had credit for more killings than I ever dreamt of

  Doc Holliday

  Country, Men, Credit

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• Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

  Alfredo Di Stefano

  Winning, Goal, Trophies

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• Anyone can say 'no'. It is the first word a child learns and often the
  first word he speaks. It is a cheap word because it requires no
  explanation, and many men and women have acquired a reputation for
  intelligence who know only this word and have used it in place of
  thought on every occasion.

  Chuck Jones

  Children, Men, Firsts

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• I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, Order

  "Huntsman Calls for Civility Where Reagan Stood to Eviscerate Carter". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

  Pat Riley

  Wonderful, Remembered, Decades

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• Reputation is the road to power

  Jeremy Bentham

  Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.108, Clarendon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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