Paul Pierce Quotes

If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in a toga.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

I have built a very good reputation in India and a lot of Indians respect me.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

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

I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

Of all forms of prestige, moral prestige is the most valuable, and no statesman should forget that one of the chief elements of British power is the moral weight that is behind it.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

It is important to gain respect rather than sympathy.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.

David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

There is dignity in being a celebrity. Let us not lose that dignity.