Quotes About Authenticity

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

It is time to search out your uniqueness, applaud and acknowledge yourself, and let your own light shine.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of mine.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.