One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.