It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.
I think I sort of have a lovehate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.
It's shocking how bright your star is.
George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
A reputation is really hard to live down.
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.
Fame is a constant effort
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.
A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.
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.
I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.
From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
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.
Had I faltered we would have neither the success nor the international reputation we have. Yet when a woman is strong she is strident. If a man is strong, he's a good guy.