Quotes About Authenticity

Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it.

But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?

As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

News used to hold itself to a higher plane, and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

Telling the truth often elicits hostility and anger.

Roles lack two essential ingredients: flexibility and honesty. In trying to define natural femininity, it's really important that we don't make it a role; it must be about something we are, not merely what we act like.

Those who construct loyalty programs through frequent-flyer points and the like, are merely trying to trap the customer. Loyalty must come naturally, not via points and schemes. If your customers are loyal to you as a result of such programs, then surely you realize that they are not loyal. Such schemes are tangible, and tangible things are susceptible to the law of annihilation. Anything that you do, can be matched by your competitor.

Klockan var tio över tolv, det var ett nytt år, vi hade träffat varandra, vi hade hittat någon som fick oss att känna oss mindre halva, en person som inte var perfekt,men vi ville inte ha perfektion, vi var trötta på perfektion, mitt äktenskap hade varit fem års jakt på det perfekta och inte en enda gång hade jag känt mig lika levande som när jag stod där fuktig på en hemmafest i Bagarmossen.

I do not understand, I never really understood, never really lived in the so-called real world. I lived… I live in my own imaginary world, which is as real as any other world, as real as the real worlds of all the other people around me.

Let us build our houses with our own hands. And grow the wheat, and bake the bread. Then we'll know what the earth is. Now, we turn the knob: the water runs. I have no idea from where or how. Electricity... We buy the bread: we don't know who bakes it, how, where. The same with our lives now. We live, but we don't know how, where, why. And it has no taste.

The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.

In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the soul, the world, the birds, storms, dreams, sadness, heavenly serenity. Then I am an artist worthy of the name . . . . Until it happens, or if it doesn't happen, I am miserable.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

It means something, I think, when Thai people learn how to cook Vietnamese noodles for Hong Kongborn teenagers, and as big a fan as I am of authenticity, it probably means something good.

People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

I'm singing for the love of it, have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

I'm not posh! I'm just southern

I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.

We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.