Quotes About Authenticity

Adamantly, Paul said, "You know I did not come tickling your ears like other speakers do. I did not try to exploit you." The apostle obviously did not buy into the tired mantra that so many chant today—while the message stays the same, the method is free to change.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

Do you know how to turn someone into a monster?" "I'm not sure. No." "Let him be himself without restraint.

Don't try to be different or memorable with your storytelling voice—be authentic.

Relationships fall apart when the guy turns into a wimp or the girl has no more secrets.

truth is the one thing no one needs to be protected from.

In truth, every one of us leads a double life. We act one way when the door is open, another when it's closed. We have certain impressions we try to make on others, pretenses we strive to keep up.

anything you do in the dark. In other words, it's any act that you try to hide from others. So, what kind of person are you when the shades are drawn? That's really the question. "Integrity," as Dr. Werjonic used to say, "has no private life." But, of course, no one has complete integrity because everyone has things to hide. All of us act differently when no one is watching.

We're desperate to be truly known by others; yet we go to incredible lengths to hide who we really are. We say we want truth, then rationalize it away when it gets too personal.

Propaganda is when a viewpoint is promoted regardless of truth. Art is when truth is rendered regardless of agenda.

It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.

The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs most is more people who have come alive.

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value." So

Tell me what you value and I might believe you," management guru Peter Drucker once said, "but show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

The problem was me. I was...I was a pathological liar. Or am, I should say. Lying is like alcoholism, one is always "recovering".

This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.