#reputation

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. ↗

— Ted Kotcheff

#being #i #reputation #temperamental

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#endure #reputation #sit #things #try

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

#doubt #great #him #his #know

With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools. ↗

— Glenn Close

#because #being #difficult #ego #fools

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#administration #attended #cheerfully #country #credit

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. ↗

— Epicurus

#pilots #reputation #skillful #storms #tempest

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ↗

— Henry Ford

#build #going #reputation #you

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#reputation #fame

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#candle #easily #finds #flame #light

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#fail #half #men #pictures #reputation