#reputation

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want. ↗

— Brit Hume

#based #being #credibility #end #hungry

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' ↗

— Mara Liasson

#around #black #bridge #built #divisions

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. ↗

— James Payn

#actions #adopt #asterisks #better #blanks

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#death #illness #reputation #death

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. ↗

— Liz Smith

#carpe-diem #dreams #goals #reputation #dreams

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#gossip #reputation #faith

All those people who are chained here thinking that their reputations matter and this little shit matters are so freaking shortsighted. Dude, what matters is that you're happy. What matters is your future. What matters is that we get out of here in one piece. What matters is finding the truth of our own lives, not caring about what other people think is the truth of us. ↗

— A.S. King

#high-school #life #reputation #self-empowerment #truth

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#men

Let louts learn [their] lesson and stifle their malicious talk! When they are enjoying themselves on the pub bench, with a jug and a glass and a barman there to serve up, then their chatter and their fun is to pass judmgent on some innocent girl -- would to God they'd drown in a beer barrel for it! ↗

— Anonymous

#gender #inequality #men #misogyny #morality

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#fame #immortality #reputation #confidence