#reputation

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#although #came #did #enable #fame

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#even #event #games #guilt #life

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast. ↗

— Emily Watson

#comedy #crying #dying #i #love

Falling out of love makes it impossible to leave your children. All you have left is your reputation for their future. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #reputation #funny

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

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#big #big problem #cleaner #corrupt #greece

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. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#body #do the right thing #encouraged #first #first time

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#critics #cynical #cynicism #does #get

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

My career suffered massively because I had a reputation for being a very tabloid person. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #career #had #i #massively