You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation. . . Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
Gain at the expense of reputation is manifest loss.
It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.
Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read. . . It's. . . filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation. . . This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.
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.
Especially being a woman of color, sometimes it's hard for to put our foot down. You work with a lot of men, and they'll be like, "She has Joyner the best reputation".
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.
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.
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!