Quotes About Authenticity

CEOS who are neurotic impostors are also likely to become addicted to consulting companies.

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Wirkliche Wahrheit unterscheidet sich von jeder phrasenhaften Wahrhaftigkeit dadurch, daß sie etwas ganz Bestimmtes will, daß etwas geschieht – nämlich daß sie den Menschen löst, frei macht.

Geheimnislos leben heißt, die entscheidenden Vorgänge des Lebens garnicht sehen oder sogar ableugnen.

The defense mechanisms of The Imposter are: sarcasm, name-dropping, self-righteousness, the need to impress others and the need for others' approval.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity.

Tal vez sea esa la vida de nosotros todos. ¡Ese eludir o perder nuestra verdadera vida encubriéndola tras una infinidad de pequeñeces con aspecto de cosas vitales!

Por otro, su naturaleza tan derecha, frontal, diercta- lo que siempre he agradecido; nada de palabrejas analgésicas-Y, lo que al pirncipio creí ver como esnobismo (que no le gusta el ruido gratuito, la alegría falsa, la fiesta, el aspaviento, la pompa, la seiedad solemne), no es más que una sencillez muy clara.

Por el otro, su naturaleza tan derecha, frontal, sin remilgos, directa- lo que siempre le he agredecido; nada de palabrejas analgésicas-. Y lo que al principio creí ver como esnobismo (que no le guste el ruido gratuito, la alegría falsa, la fiesta, el aspaviento, la pompa, la seriedad solemne), no es más que una sencillez muy clara.

Es verdad que siempre he tenido miedo de que la gente no me quisese tal y como yo soy, ese es mi temor más grande, pero a lo mejor faltaba la clave, el por qué.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

if all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty,

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Write like yourself, only more so.

Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.

Le pire mensonge est de se mentir à soi-même.

Je n'appartient pas à un système, j'ai toujours lutté contre ça. Je vois les gens que j'aime, je vais là où je veux aller, je lis un livre parce qu'il m'attire et non parce qu'il faut absolument l'avoir lu et toute ma vie est comme cela.

phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you're with treats you like a stranger?

I think it's phony to force oneself to be jolly just because it happens to be marked on the calendar.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged.