Prestige Quotes - Page 4

• I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Power, Mouths, Subjects

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

  C. Wright Mills

  Respect, Shadow, Cash

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.83, Oxford University Press

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• People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.

  Steve Coppell

  Winning, Games, People

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• MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Careers, People

  1991 Generation X,'The Sun IsYour Enemy'.

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• What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'

  Mark Fidrych

  Baseball, Nice, Past

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• People should really think about when they see President Donald Trump, they should think about all the places that he was and could be. All the things he could be doing. The political motivators for many typical politicians of which he's not one, Mercy, money, power, prestige, fame, he had all of that.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, People, Political

  Kellyanne Conway's remarks at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, fortune.com. February 23, 2017.

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• [Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, Males, Authority

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.

  Elliot Perlman

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

  Laura Riding

  Musical, Poetic, Fit

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• To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.

  Andre Maurois

  Football, Eye, Player

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Country, Opportunity, Land

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Thinking, Differences

  "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, p. 21, 1965.

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• People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.

  Malick Sidibe

  Party, People, Temperature

  Malick Sidibé, André Magnin, Boubacar Traoré (1998). “Malick Sidibé”, Scalo Verlag Ac

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• There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

  Brian Mulroney

  Government, Demand, Resources

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• When the power, prestige and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Government, Support

  Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

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• Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Responsibility, Exercise, Sometimes

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• Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.

  David Cannadine

  Self, Order, Cynical

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• Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

  J. D. Salinger

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

  Erich Fromm

  Wisdom, Religious, Fun

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• When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

  Stanley Clarke

  Winning, People, Links

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• The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

  William Gibson

  Country, Automation, Certain

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.78, Penguin

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• A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.

  Walter Benjamin

  Determination, Growth, Blind

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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