Quotes About Authenticity

Be careful of those who allow microscopes to replace mirrors in their lives, holding you to standards you were never called to maintain.

When we meet people flesh to flesh we meet people mess to mess.

Relief arises from consistency—from being the same person at the shopping mall as we are at Sunday worship.

Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. (Gal. 1:10)

Let them present their witnesses to vindicate themselves, so that people may hear and say, "It is true." Isaiah 43:9

We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2

Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves.

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

I think Hollywood has this reputation of being fake, but there is real people, and you can choose and try and see.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.

I'm very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of 'Drag Race' saying they're great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up.