Ray Price Quotes

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

What is important for me is that the people who know me for real know Mario how he really is. People who don't know me, they read newspapers and they watch TV. TV is made to give a lot of opinions... so I can't show the real Mario to everybody.

You are what you're portrayed as.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

It's kinda all about image.

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what people think you are.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

In a campaign, impressions can be much more important than facts and debate.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

The response is to the image, not to the man, since 99 percent of the voters have no contact with the man.

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

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.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

You really have to think a lot before speaking, and the things that are written about you, sometimes you might not like it.

Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.