Quotes About Authenticity

I looked like me. I sounded like me. But I wasn't me.

We are hungry for the sustenance of sturdy, deep friendships, but we are fed an idea of friendship that is neither nourishing nor satisfying. Friendship can and must be so much more.

For Nathan, I wanted it to be a place where he could breathe out the pressure to perform, to conform, to always be "good" when what was defined as good was almost impossible for him, as God made him, to conform to.

Conformity spawns conformity.

men sometimes mistrust women who are averse to claiming their achievements. They view such women as inauthentic, falsely humble, or lacking in commitment.

When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

You will never rise to your greatest potential by being all things to all people.

To become more fascinating, you don't have to change who you are. You have to become more of who you are.

If you communicate with a slew of haphazard and conflicting messages, it's difficult to develop a clearly established route. You'll seem confused, or inauthentic, and the audience will be less likely to understand what you stand for.

Here's your choice: Spend a lot of time and money in pursuit of better. Or find what makes you different, and then do it on purpose.

Sometimes the most fascinating advertising isn't what your brand says to the world, but what it actually does in the world.

If you want to increase perceived value for you and your work, you need to focus on who you are, rather than what you do.

For marketers, it's not about marketing a message—it's about getting the market to create messages about you.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

A real actor can't love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn't know how to love someone for the real.

Sometime we fail to differ the diamond from glass piece. We mistakenly miss the diamond which is on the road or under our feet. But we also mistakenly run for the glass piece in the jewelry shop. When we mistakenly buy a glass piece as a diamond with high price then we regret for the life time. What have we done for buying the fake one?

Thanks will be a worthless word until a person tells it from heart. When a person thanks someone with full heart then the word will be big and worthy word and will have full meaning to the person. Or else it will remain small and valueless word if a person says it just for saying.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating: It is either good or bad.

Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.