Quotes About Authenticity

Be yourself behind the pen, not Hemingway, Joyce or Faulkner. Find your own voice. Let your own mind run through your fingers.

Try to be all things to all people, and you may just wind up being nothing much to hardly anyone.

We are responsible for living in a way that shows others who we truly are and what we believe.

Genuine, authentic leadership infuses meaning into your life, because you know that your efforts count and that you are serving the needs of others as well as your own.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

The physicality of storytelling must remain strong.

How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now." —Annie Dillard

I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I don't have two lives. This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.

Mi torre no debe parecerse a las demás, ni la comparo con ellas. No se trata de que sea todo lo alta posible. Debe además corresponderse con mi naturaleza.

Lenguaje auténtico me parece a mí aquel en el que la palabra y la cosa coinciden»

There is no halfway. You don't, it turns out, sell out a little bit. Maybe you thought you were just going to show a little ankle – okay, maybe a little calf, too – but in the end, you're taking on the whole front line of the Pittsburgh Steelers on a dirty shag carpet.

You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base.

The whole concept of 'the perfect meal' is ludicrous. I knew already that the best meal in the world, the perfect meal, is very rarely the most sophisticated or expensive one....Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Selling out is getting a job.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

But I'm simply not going to deceive anybody about the life as I've seen it. It's all here: the good, the bad and the ugly.

As pessoas do mundo da restauração podem gostar ou não gostar do que vou contar, mas saberão muito bem que não estarei a mentir.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

Mexican food is about taking the time to do it right, about hours of slow simmering.

we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is not melted cheese over a tortilla chip. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply 'bro food' at halftime. It is, in fact, old; older even than the great cuisines of Europe and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.