Quotes About Authenticity

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

Humor is a huge part of the way I operate; if people can't understand a joke then they should not follow me.

I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.

I am unapologetically myself, no matter what anyone's opinion is.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

There's always going to be people that say you're a sellout - anyone who knew you back when or who wants to begrudge you for having success. That's OK. Their opinion of me, and the box they want to put me in, is just simply none of my business.

I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

You can say a lot of things about me, but I own my own opinions. They're not for sale.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.