Quotes About Authenticity

In che cosa consiste l'autentica virilità se non in una ben proporzionata miscela di classe e follia?

Ludzie nie pragn? ?eczy wymy?lonych, poci?ga ich tylko to, co zobaczyli wcze?niej.

a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

No matter how long it takes or how desperately a person battles or denies, the truth always — always — makes itself known.

you will never please everyone, nor should pleasing everyone be your goal. For example, to seek the approval of someone who is lazy or jealous is to cast your pearls before swine. You will find that God rarely uses a person whose main concern is what others are thinking.

Most folks figure a true friend is someone who accepts them as they are. But that's dangerous garbage to believe.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.

Don't imitate our life. Please learn from our life. Build up your own new life. Just be as much like yourself as you can be.

Only dead fish go with the flow.

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs on stage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

I think the word 'love' should be used sparingly and truthfully.

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately.

Because of the pressure to fit in and to please, we can find ourselves making decisions that don't align with our highest good. When we make decisions from the fear of being judged and/or rejected, we doom ourselves to this people-pleasing brand of decision-making.

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?