Quotes About Authenticity

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

The worst thing to do when I'm feeling insecure or a bit vulnerable is to scroll through Instagram. You only show when life is good on social media. Everyone looks happy all the time.

I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.

Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.

I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, 'Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.' But people are still attracted to it.

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

The thing about gay people is that until we come out of the closet, we're always protecting other people: 'I can't do this, because it's gonna hurt so-and-so.' We're trying to live the lives of other people, and that's the worst thing you can do.

Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

Maybe the worst thing is not caring what people think. That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life.

I've been wearing white since my college days. I like color, but if I wear colored clothes now, it would feel like I'm being false. And that's the worst thing I could be.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Do what in your heart you know is right. It is easy to get caught up in your ambitions, but no job is worth not being true to yourself.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.