Quotes About Authenticity

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

I wasn't really worrying too much about what anybody thought: if you do that you shut yourself down.

You cannot be worrying about what other people think. You have to be sure that what you do is what you love to do, because if you love it, maybe another hundred thousand people might love it, too. Some other people might not like it, but it doesn't matter, because you have to express what you want to express. You only live once.

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.

This may sound a little harsh, but I don't care about my career. Really, I don't like actors who are always planning what they're going to do next or always worrying about doing something that will go against the image they've created. To me, that's almost like an attack of narcissism.

I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

If I want a hamburger, I'm going to have one. No 21-year-old should be worrying about whether she fits a sample size.

Moms, you should parent in whatever way works for your family and spend less time worrying about other people's perceptions of how you're doing.

I grew out of the habit of thinking or worrying about being seen as the typical Asian. I don't even know what that means anymore. I'm not really concerned with it.

We are all scrutinised. Everyone. Man, woman, everyone, especially if you are in the public eye in any way on social media. It's about doing you and not worrying too much about other things. Only worry about the things that are really worth worrying about.

Whatever takes your fancy, you should do it without worrying what will people think. Otherwise, you will get stuck, like how some get stuck in a lover boy image or in an action image.

I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how I look and I don't fall into the trap of judging myself by my appearance.

You can't play worrying about, like, what will other people say about me. That's not how I've ever approached the game.

Never worry about what people think. That's what drove me to drinking a lot of time, worrying about what people thought of me.

I finally stopped worrying what people would think. I found out that almost everybody has some secret, some dark fear that if people knew this about them they wouldn't like them anymore, or would look down on them.

We're fighters. Stop worrying about showing up in a fur coat. Get out of here with that.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

There are people who curse worse than me and want to hide it all, but I ain't no hypocrite.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.