Quotes About Authenticity

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

People will respect you more if you are honest with them.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

I don't have to alter the way I look - I can still wear a short, tight dress, but if what I'm saying is correct, then hopefully you garner respect.

I don't like ten dollar words. Anybody can do anything with a thesaurus. Make me feel a certain way with the least amount of words possible and I respect that.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.

My continued respect is only given to those who have proven worthy of it. My respect for another person can be revoked in an instant if warranted and never to be regained again. Tread carefully.

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.