Cops in New York City don’t have the best reputation. It’s a fast-paced city, and they deal with a lot, and many people have seen lots of cops interact with the public utilizing what can be gently called ‘not the best customer service.’
Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
I am excited to be working with the dedicated Four Seasons board and leadership team to build upon their reputation for industry-leading customer experiences while seeking out innovative ways to leverage technology that will help spur additional growth.
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
The history of philosophy is actually full of people who argue for rather wild and incredible views, and their reputations are based on the skill of arguing for them.
A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment.
My dad had a real big reputation as being the hard man, street fighter, the gangster. My stepdad was quite timid, and I wanted a bit of the gangster in my life.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
The Cantor reputation is one we get from clients and those we hire.
One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting people’s status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone’s name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my actions, not on anybody’s history. I’m not running from my family – I couldn’t embrace my family more. But I wanted to work in an industry where I could define myself, not be defined by my grandfather’s history.
I have this burgeoning reputation for playing a scumbag.
It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they’re basically copiers. Look at the cars on the streets. They all look alike. But if you put quality into a product, then have it validated, you have huge credibility.
Cyprus has a reputation as a laundromat for the Russians who are trying to avoid sanctions.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
Every time you do a movie, it’s important for your career, your reputation.
You know you don’t see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don’t believe that teachers and head teachers should. It’s within their rights, it’s a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don’t launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
That’s what I’d like to think that my reputation is – being honest.
I’m not sure I’m comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That’s something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.
I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin.
The cool parts – the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as ‘the Vegas of the Middle East’ or ‘the Venice of the Middle East’ or ‘the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert’ – have been built in the last ten years.
But I don’t have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince’s Trust, so I’m just living up to my reputation.
Even without mandatory sentences, judges are still capable of levying tough penalties for serious offenses – and just as in states like Texas that have ‘tough on crime’ reputations, this can be done without jeopardizing public safety.
I’m a competitor. I had that reputation in my time at the WWE. I would walk into a locker room, start wrestling with someone, and all I’d hear is, ‘There goes Swagger again.’
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what’s good and what’s not good.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people’s expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and honest with myself. I think that was the reason I grew to have the reputation I had in the league.
Sponsorship is about putting your name and reputation on the line for someone else. It could be as simple as recommending someone for a new role, yet it’s one of the most powerful cultural tools any organization has.
I’m stingy and I’m proud of the reputation.
My main motivation is not to get bored. I’m just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition.
People forget how outcast ‘They Might Be Giants’ can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.
In an organization that is unwilling to change, find the opportunity to talk and interact with people – figure out why they don’t want to change. It could be habits. It could be people’s personal equities and reputations are defined by the role they’re in or the process they’ve mastered.
Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation.
There are clearly some policies that need to change, and the reputation of the credit card industry is not high. Reforms need to take place.
Though she is a proud native of one of the most famously liberal cities in the country, Feinstein has earned a reputation over the years in the Senate as someone eager to work across the aisle with Republicans.
Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our technologically-savvy customers the most up-to-the-minute data on homes, from listing prices to photos – all at their fingertips.
One of my favourite plants is English lavender but it doesn’t have the best reputation for growing in the Highlands.
I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but… I have a reputation of – people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.
The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion… We will not allow this to happen.
For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs and do the right thing. I hope I’ve encouraged other people to do the same.
I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I’m willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I’ve been a Disney fan all my life.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
