#reputation

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#expect #often #people #rather #reputation

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#cheap #generosity #like #reputation

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cole porter #had #porter #reputation #worldwide

I do have this reputation for being a serious person. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#i #i do #person #reputation #serious

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#bad #broad #early #generalization #his

SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#live #live music #music #putting #reputation

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#reputation #way

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#felt #had #i #my own #own

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#character #god #know #men #men and women

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#assertive #easily #fit #i #new