Quotes About Authenticity

Scare People with Sincerity

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

I really want to know what you'd like to change about yourself, or better yet, what your best friends would say you need to work on." The key to the answer is not what their weaknesses are (unless of course they're an axe murderer), but if they're comfortable acknowledging something real.

moments of truth ... are best handled face-to-face

The truth is, the only thing more painful than confronting an uncomfortable topic is pretending it doesn't exist. And I believe far more suffering is caused by failing to deal with an issue directly—and whispering about it in the hallways—than by putting it on the table and wrestling with it head on.

the only way to do this is to overcome our need for invulnerability

It was astounding how much more comfortable I felt just being honest. So I kept going.

humble self- confidence.

Tell the kind truth.

Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

What is most important is that team members get comfortable letting their colleagues see them for who they are. No pretension. No positioning.

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.

My point is that the admirable men of those times, the Cochranes, Byrons, Falconers, Seymours, Boscawens and the many less famous sailors from whom I have in some degree compounded my characters, are best celebrated in their own splendid actions rather than in imaginary contests; that authenticity is a jewel; and that the echo of their words has an abiding value.

Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.

What people are looking for is you. As a leader, people need you to be clear about and demonstrate a passion for your purpose. They want to know that you practice your values consistently. And they absolutely want to know that you lead from your heart as well as your head. People are not looking for you to say the perfect words. They are looking for you to show up, being absolutely real and believable. They are seeking to believe.

in matches. He pioneered the matted slide and the frenched borders on 1911s. Now, the look of an honest-to-goodness

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Honesty and integrity are a "given" in most organizations, rarely tested on any but the most superficial levels.

You know what?" he said with great earnestness. "I think we're both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Isn't that true?

Don't let other people's opinions guide and direct your life, opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and most of them stink

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.