Quotes with prestige

  • We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
  • Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.
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  • Ken Keyes Jr No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
    Ken Keyes Jr
    American personal growth author and lecturer (1921 - 1995)
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  • John F. Kennedy People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • C. Wright Mills 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
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bernard Crick Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Anthony Kennedy 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
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Camille Paglia The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Brendan Myers The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Barry Marshall There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Adolph Green We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • John F. Kennedy Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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