Bob Dylan Quotes

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

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren't careful.

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

I don't pay a lot of attention to polls.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

Reputation is the road to power

Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.

I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.