Quotes About Authenticity

Disfruto de la vida a mi manera. Pero en los últimos tiempos, no dejo de preguntarme que demonios soy. Y bastante seriamente.

You're very clear about what you like and what you don't like, she said. Maybe so, I said. Maybe that's why people don't like me. Never have. It's because you show it, she said. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.

There are people who drive luxury cars, but have only second- or third-rate sofas in their homes. I put little trust in such people.

Everyone lets their hair down here.

I happen to like the strange ones, the driver said. People who look normal and live a normal life--they're the ones you have to watch out for.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven't you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.

Novelists are a special breed. They cannot genuinely trust anything they have not seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands (Salon, 20 February 2009).

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

Most of these university types are total phonies. They're scared to death somebody's gonna find out they don't know something. They all read the same books and they all throw around the same words, and they get off listening to John Coltrane and seeing Pasolini movies.

Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. The interval between varies in direct proportion to the size of ship. With anything of size, truth takes a long time in coming. Sometimes it only manifests itself posthumously. Therefore, should I impart you with no truth at this juncture, that is through no fault of mine. Nor yours.

Too many people work in ways that are not their ways, and that almost guarantees nonperformance.

Leadership has many voices. You need to be who you are, not try to emulate somebody else.

Remember the words of the Gnostic Jesus, I forget which book: 'If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.' " "It was Thomas." "Yes, the Book of Thomas.

O que realmente importa são as emoções subjacentes - você não deve abandoná-las.

It is important to know what the group thinks, but that is not the same as believing or reinforcing what the group thinks. In a time of rapid change in particular, then, it is important to be willing to be the lone voice. Be the person who never conforms to patently wrong statements in order to fit in with the crowd. Be Asch-Negative.

You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.

You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

Most of us hide away when we are sad, Rose thought. But performers were sad in public. She liked how honest they all were. They opened up their hearts They took out every emotion-no matter how small or pathetic or odd-and celebrated it.

What we needed was a love that was able to sine a light on who exactly we were, so that we could be people offstage.

the more concretely I am in the world, the more genuine the existence of deception.

I am not interested in emotional fuckwittage.

I keep telling you, nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park in a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.

It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.

Everything's just so good now, because, as Dad says, 'It's coming from the inside, not the outside.