#reputation

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ↗

— Petrarch

#difficult #how #ignorance #reputation #rocks

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#character #extraordinary #feel #genius #hand

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#known #new #new south wales #nothing #over

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

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. ↗

— William Congreve

#coroner #inquest #like #reputations #sit

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#been #consider #continuously #date #difference

When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#cemented #elizabeth #family #firmly #growing

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

#gain #glory #greater #more #pilots

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

— Henry Ford

#build #going #reputation #you