Gains Quote by Paul Theroux Download Open image “Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.” — Paul Theroux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gains Modest Reputation Unreliable
It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I need to trust whoever it is I'm working with, and I don't think I can accomplish that in one day, necessarily. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In a way, Che Guevara's fate was far worse than Simon Bolivar's. Guevara's collapse was complete: his intentions were forgotten, but his style was… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
