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.
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
I don't have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Everyone knows Mike Portnoy's reputation. He's a great drummer, and he helped us out in a great time of need. He really helped us get back underneath our feet and continue this band.
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage.
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.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
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.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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.
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.
It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.
One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my 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.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.
Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his 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.
The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
