Quotes About Authenticity

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

I remember just calling myself gay was a big step for me, and I remember being in the bathroom brushing my teeth, testing out to myself in the mirror, saying, 'I am gay,' and seeing if the world was going to stop or if the ceiling would fall in on me.

James had learned something about girls: if you want them to like you, don't worry about buying gifts, or saying the right thing, or where to take them. What you need to do is grab the nearest brat and stick it on your lap.

We are Kurita. Across the stars, what we appear to be, we are. Appearances are all-important. That is something you seem unwilling or unable to learn.

What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.

If some of the things sound a little childish, figure it out: do you think they're too childish, or do you think that if someone else saw you doing it, he would think it was childish?

Content marketing is about celebrating what makes your business unique. It is, inherently, about making the business more social and more human.

If your marketing is good but your product is bad, then that means your marketing is bad, too.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Quienes somos importa más que lo que hacen nuestros cuerpos. El ermitaño que se sienta solo en la cima de una montaña emitiendo una vibración de paz hace más para traer armonía al mundo que el furioso activista por la paz, cuya frecuencia sirve sólo para crear precisamente aquello contra lo que grita vehementemente.

When you try to act from what you don't really feel inside, it becomes harder to become effective at it.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

Now I was going to be myself. I wasn't going to be hard to get along with or go out of my way to say anything mean, but from now on people were going to have to take me for what I was.

Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this.' That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mind-set.

Our people don't have one look, one background, one culture," says Erik. "The common thread is they are themselves. They are genuine.

Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued.

Emotions are what make us human. Make us real. The word 'emotion' stands for energy in motion. Be truthful about your emotions, and use your mind and emotions in your favor, not against yourself.

The same goes for authority: looking like the real thing may have more impact than actually being it.

Acting out of obligation, form or tradition is deadly, because giving up one's ability to act out of free choice is equivalent to giving up life itself.

An honest, unloving father or mother will do far less damage to his or her child than a role-playing, "loving" parent. A rejecting and unloving parent will cause a child pain, but a dishonestly rejecting parent causes the child pain and makes him or her feel "crazy.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

As we look around at people, what they're doing with their children, with each other, with their wives, with their husbands, we see that most of their behavior is directed toward maintaining illusions and bonds.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.