Quotes About Authenticity

A best friend is there for you when you're down. A best friend acknowledges your feelings, forgives your mistakes, and lets you be whomever you really are. A best friend listens to your truth without judging you, and tells you the truth even if you don't want to hear it. A best friend empowers you to be the person you want to be. You never have to pretend to be someone else when you're with your best friend.

if you're not feeling so positive, then fake it!—you're going to put other people at ease, and attract the types of people and energy you want. People with similar energies attract one another. Your vibe attracts your tribe.

But if what a novel exudes has not been felt properly or seriously or deeply enough by the writer, then it will show and I will become tremendously bored and irritated.

To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

The real courage is seeing the truth and speaking the truth to each other.

A lot of coaches can yell or be nice, but what Pop does is different," says assistant coach Chip Engelland. "He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.

Spotlight Your Fallibility Early On—Especially If You're a Leader: In any interaction, we have a natural tendency to try to hide our weaknesses and appear competent. If you want to create safety, this is exactly the wrong move. Instead, you should open up, show you make mistakes, and invite input with simple phrases like "This is just my two cents." "Of course, I could be wrong here." "What am I missing?" "What do you think?

Spotlight Your Fallibility Early On—Especially If You're a Leader:

Concordances happen when one person can react in an authentic way to the emotion being projected in the room," Marci says. "It's about understanding in an empathic way, then doing something in terms of gesture, comment, or expression that creates a connection.

Make Sure the Leader Is Vulnerable First and Often:

none carries more power than the moment when a leader signals vulnerability. As Dave Cooper says, I screwed that up are the most important words any leader can say.

In any interaction, we have a natural tendency to try to hide our weaknesses and appear competent. If you want to create safety, this is exactly the wrong move.

Make Sure the Leader Is Vulnerable First and Often: As we've seen, group cooperation is created by small, frequently repeated moments of vulnerability. Of these, none carries more power than the moment when a leader signals vulnerability.

He delivers two things over and over: He'll tell you the truth, with no bullshit, and then he'll love you to death.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

No matter what, that friendship is real. No matter how much you dissect it, or talk about it, or analyze it, it'll always be real.

Stop worrying about what others think of you. Base your thoughts, your decisions, and your goals on what you want and what is important in your life.

But as bald men with cheap hairpieces always seem to forget, acting as though you have something and actually having it are not the same thing, and anyone who looks closely can tell the difference.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are