Quotes About Authenticity

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Appearance too often takes the place of reality -- the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, "I know not seem!"

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Oye, todo es verdad — replicó Francis —. Todo cuanto te pasa por la imaginación, aunque apeste a chorrada, es verdad.

In the simple way of the wild daisies that grew in the grass of the pasture behind our home she offered the beauty of herself without pretension.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

Veritas, it's called. Don't you love it when

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

You can not lie in your paintings, because you cannot hide from yourself.

In a world where superficial relationships are the norm, real and authentic community is refreshing.

The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.

She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.

This ain't no party. This ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around.

If they liked a tune, they wanted to hear it again—now! The vibe was more like CBGB than your typical contemporary opera house.

The technology is useful and convenient, but it has, in the end, reduced its own value and increased the value of the things it has never been able to capture or reproduce.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.