Quotes About Authenticity

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my autobiography.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

It was written without fear and without research.

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.