A Quote by George Eliot

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success.

Christopher Voss

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

Samuel R. Delany

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.

Gerhard Tersteegen

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

My reputation precedes me now.

Dwayne Johnson

I've wanted to be a professional actor for years and if you get any sort of success in that field then fame sort of comes along with it. But I don't know if I'm sort of media fodder like other people are. I'm essentially a family man.

Mackenzie Crook

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

George Clooney

My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.

Sylvie Guillem

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

Judy Holliday

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

Ross Kemp

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

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.