Quotes About Authenticity

La obligación real del hombre es vivir, no existir

They may not know it, but it is a pose. In so far as they cultivate salient peculiarities, they cultivate falseness to themselves and live lies.

6. You Can Sometimes Fool the Fans, But You Can Never Fool the Players.

Be sincere always

The only antidote is simplicity. The simplicity of leading through truth and trust. Ceaselessly seeking the former, relentlessly building the latter. In every decision, in every action. Truth is a determined pursuit, a personal and unquenchable fire, burning to know what is really happening inside the company and out.

El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.

El auténtico descubridor. No obstante, no es el hombre que, el primero, tiene la suerte de tropezarse con alguna cosa, sino el hombre que encuentra lo que iba buscando.

A las personas hay que aceptarlas con sus máscaras; es la única forma de quitárselas.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

You can't separate the way you behave when you're communicating with your spouse from the way you communicate with your co-workers or boss. It's important to be the same person all day, every day.

A lot of nonsense is spoken about work. Some of the finest men I've known were the laziest. Never work because it's expected of you. Find out how much work you must do to live and be happy. Don't do any more.

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

Men do not attract that which they -want,- but that which they -are.-

There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of Truth.

Circumstances don't shape us, so much as they reveal us.