Without intellectual honesty, you can’t have a culture that’s willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn’t working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can’t admit failure.
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel’s fans, and blighted my reputation forever.
Because I was drafted high, I got the reputation of being conceited, like I’m too good for this person or that person.
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I’m doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn’t work I can go back to what I know’s already there.
My reputation has increased, not just in Korea but across the continent.
The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire.’
I don’t mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
Yes, I met with Arsene Wenger, who is a great coach. He has a great reputation here in France, he’s well-respected and knows how to develop young players.
I’ve always had a reputation as a buffoon.
Your reputation doesn’t stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you’re capable of doing the job.
Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.
I hope that I have gained the reputation of being someone that would do anything. I think that that’s an admirable reputation to have if you’re an actor.
Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.
I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them… on face value.
As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel’s already fierce reputation.
Brett Kavanaugh was a very difficult Supreme Court nominee for liberals to oppose. He had a stellar reputation, an impeccable record, and a genial disposition.
When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
The money is important in life, but the money is not everything. I don’t want to sell myself for money. I don’t want to sell my reputation for money.
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance. There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors… But I think they’re quite positive when they’re dynamic and do something new.
I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.
Until you get your reputation made, you have to work twice as hard… there is always a doubt in your superior’s mind as to whether you will put family before your job.
As the U.K. prepares to leave the E.U., we have an opportunity to leverage our reputation for integrity and fair play as we establish new trading relationships.
Even though I’ve got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I’m a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.
Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it’s hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.
When it comes to crime, college campuses act as if they are sovereign nations, inside which secret bodies can adjudicate criminal wrongdoing to protect the reputation of the institution and the illusion that it is a safe place to send your kids.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
The U.K.’s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.
Being the Rated-R Superstar, I have to live up to the reputation.
The Republican name used to be synonymous with limiting the size and scope of government, and we need to re-establish that reputation. We must work to eliminate government waste, make certain taxpayer dollars go to meaningful programs, and leave resources directly with the people.
I think I’ve earned a reputation of being fair and that I’ll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
India unfortunately has the unenviable reputation of being the home to the largest number of undernourished children, women and men in the world.
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
One of the reasons it’s important to make a new project is it always seems to improve the reputations of the previous one. Whatever you did before is better than what you’ve just done, apparently. But I’ve had to follow the first rule of journalism: Never read the comments.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
We’ve done a lot to restore Liberia’s credibility, Liberia’s reputation, Liberia’s presence.
I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.
I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
With cyberbullying, one press of a finger on an electronic device can shatter someone’s reputation and what they think is their entire life. It’s scary.
Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in ‘reputation first’ seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
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.
I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.
In Scotland you can enter a comfort zone. I felt I had already developed a reputation there and felt it was important to prove I can play elsewhere.
Believe me, I’ve totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don’t care. I think that’s one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that’s the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?
