Quotes About Authenticity

to live against one's grain, that is degeneration by definition.

Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

This was the end of Dickie Greenleaf, he knew. He hated becoming Thomas Ripley again, hated being nobody, hated putting on his old set of habits again, and feeling that people looked down on him and were bored with him unless he put on an act for them like a clown, feeling incompetent and incapable of doing anything with himself except entertaining people for minutes at a time.

One's just supposed to conform. I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.

An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.

You say you love me however I am and when I curse. I say I love you always, the person you are and the person you will become.

Teach me neither to proffer nor receive cheap praise.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Use what language you will,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'you can never say anything but what you are.

One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

In a flash, I realized I had brought all this miser on myself by trying to fit myself into a pattern to which I did not conform.

Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

You are something new in this world. Be glad of it. Make the most of what nature gave you. In the last analysis, all art is autobiographical. You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must cultivate your own little garden. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.

We must first remember that today's relational successes are not measured on the scale of media—which ones to use and how many friends, fans, or followers one can accumulate. They are measured on the scale of meaning. Become meaningful in your interactions and the path to success in any endeavor is simpler and far more sustainable. The reason? People notice. People remember. People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.

poeta e filósofo Ralph Waldo Emerson escreveu: "Empregue a linguagem que quiser, mas você só conseguirá dizer o que você é.

Let me repeat: The principles taught in this book will work only when they come from the heart. I am not advocating a bag of tricks. I am talking about a new way of life. Talk about changing people. If you and I will inspire the people with whom we come in contact to a realization of the hidden treasures they possess, we can do far more than change people. We can literally transform them.

Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

un genuino interés en la otra persona es la cualidad más importante que pueda tener un vendedor

the praise you offer must be genuine and heartfelt

without seeming false in your praise.

Adular es decir a la otra persona lo que se piensa de uno mismo".

customers like to feel that they are buying, not being sold.

In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.