Quotes About Authenticity

Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel is for real.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.

Start with the soul and end with the sale. Not the other way around.

It's never your successful friends posting the inspirational quotes

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

When you find yourself on the side of majority, question yourself about what you are doing and why. It is likely wrong.

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault.

I would encourage you to follow the pathway to enlightenment, to learn to meditate, to practice mindfulness, and not to really care what anybody thinks about you, including yourself.