“A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.” PeopleWantLinesChanceCareersInvolvedHollywoodScaredReputationTake A ChanceFear No One Author:Billy Eichner
“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.” MayChanceAccountsBreathsRaisesEsteemReputation Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ... have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.” PeopleCountryJesusChristChanceCitiesExampleJesus ChristPossessionCriminalsReputationDestroyedVillageFollowers Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.” MenYearsGivenChanceHalfPathTalentTwentiesInvestingReputationFortunateMeritPrizePretendingCompositionRenown Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard
“I really like Barack Obama. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe. He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. He's a champion. I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance. And he's just done something that's amazing.” PeopleThinkingWorldGivingTryingFirstsMeanHardDoneChanceAgreeDisasterReputationCardsAdministrationBarackChampionOddsCatastropheDeckAgainst All OddsWorking Very HardDeck Of Cards Author:Donald Trump
“We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.” PeopleKnowsWholeActionChanceHonestDependsRegardFortuneNeighborWhole LifeEsteemReputationMeritAcquireHarvestGood FortuneUsefulnessProximity Author:George Augustus Henry Sala
“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.” FeelsKindMadeBookHandsGivenFeltChanceNumbersMinesWeaponsCriticsSizeReputationSatNew BooksRectifyGiven A ChanceBring Me Down Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.” LooksMayMeanLongRunningSuccessFightingChanceCareersFailingRiskGoes OnHonorReputationRuinsMoving OnEncountersEncouragingFavourRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureChances AreRecipe For SuccessWords Of EncouragementCarrying OnGiving Up Is Not An OptionGreat Risk Book:Can You Forgive Her? Source: Can You Forgive Her?