Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

I think I have respect from players, coaches, and certain media who watch the games. I'm not a youngster anymore.

When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are - the best thing of it is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody's going to listen to it, and they'll preface what I say, 'Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.'

I would like to think people would take me seriously.

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

People should take me more seriously.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

I think it takes a little bit of time for people to take you seriously.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.