Quotes About Authenticity

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

I hate perfect centerpieces and formal tablescapes.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

Authenticity in any format is important, so I try as hard as I can to stay as real as possible.

I like to be the normal Julian Nagelsmann. Doesn't matter if I'm the manager of RB Leipzig or the manager of a youth team. I hope that if you ask anybody of my team in my former days or now they say 'yes, he is still the same guy.'

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former name.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.

I don't want to do the song-dance formula; there are many people doing it, right?

I've seen people 'turn up' for the camera, thinking that this is the best way to maximize their platform and get more camera time. This formula works, but it's shortsighted.

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.

It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a model, I don't always get control over how someone decides to put forth my picture.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

Fortunately, or unforunately for me, I am always at my best when I am unhampered: when I can let myself go and have a little fun.

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

When I was a kid and getting paid to stand in front of a camera. I used to spend a lot of my time just laughing inside about the whole thing. It wasn't real to me. I couldn't act and I damn well knew it. I kept expecting someone to see the joke and call the whole thing off at any moment. Fortunately, no one ever did.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

I was not driven by fame and fortune.