Jo Beverley Quotes

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

Honestly, everybody gets talked about. Some people control their press a little more than others. Some people feed the press and move it the way they want to. I don't do that.

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.

We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset.

There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

This can't be true but I remember it.

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.

People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.

If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.

Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.

People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

It probably is harder to fool people when they know they're going to be fooled.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.