Van Jones Quotes

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.

That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens!

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Slander strongly and some will stick.

A 30 second negative ad can matter more to a candidate's career than a lifetime voting record.

Unless you are a prohibitive front-runner, an unanswered smear is believed.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

I trust most people. Not producers.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many truly kind-hearted people there are, with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most disinterested assistance.

Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message.

There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.