Quotes About Authenticity

Second, the leaders had overcome the enormous pressures on successful companies to take paths they had not chosen and did not necessarily want to follow. The people in charge had remained in control, or had regained control, by doing a lot of soul searching, rejecting a lot of well-intentioned advice, charting their own course, and building the kind of business they wanted to live in, rather than accommodating themselves to a business shaped by outside forces.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud!

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.

I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists can get by on their voices and their style, but my songs speak volumes, and all I have to to is lay them down correctly, lyrically, and they'll do what they need to do.

The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

It's one of those songs that makes a good record but it's too much work to make it believable in live performance.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of. I'd left my hometown only ten years earlier, wasn't vociferating the opinions of anybody. My destiny lay down the road with whatever life invited, had nothing to do with representing any kind of civilization. Being true to yourself, that was the thing.

all is phony.

He's a professional liar.

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Bob Woodward

Don't let anybody tell you how great they are. It's all bullshit.

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult to take chances in expressing our individuality.

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.