Quotes About Authenticity

What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

We can check on what people say by seeing what they do.

You cannot race somebody else's race. The prize will never be yours if you're running in the wrong lane.

And that's the challenge for all of us - to create warmth in a digital world. Not many people can do it. You see a lot of stuff that looks great but simply doesn't turn you on. It's like making a song on a synthesizer. To make a drum machine sound good is really difficult - you might as well play real drums. We're still analogue beings. Our brains and eyes are analogue.

The mid-century Conservative Party in England had arrived at a universal font truth: we tend to treat the traditional and familiar as trustworthy. We are dubious of fonts that alert us to their difference, or fonts that seem to be trying too hard. We don't like being consciously sold things, or paying for fancy design we don't need.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forgery, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.

I am not weird!" I said. "I'm just differently normal.

Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

Too many people live the lives other people think they ought to, following orders they don't agree with, for causes they don't believe in. They live lives that don't matter, that touch no one and change nothing. For better or worse, you and I stared evil in the eye and didn't flinch. We raised our swords and went to war, and even if we didn't win we kicked some ass along the way. We made a difference, and that's all any man can ask.

I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

El objetivo de escribir no es ser publicado, eso es algo hermoso, pero el objetivo es la verdad, la autenticidad.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

What would it take for you to go out with me?

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

I like that girl more that I can remember likin' anything in my life. I'm not about to give her up. I'll start carin' what people think when I am six feet under.