Quotes About Authenticity

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

Okay, that so did me in. Mr. Rock being all emotional? Expressing his feelings?" p. 12

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.