Quotes About Authenticity

To thrive at sea, you must be responsible for who you are, not who you want to be.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.

Reality may be hard, but it's all we have.

You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.

Idiosyncratic types are sustained by the rich inner worlds of their Selves; they may or may not be successful by other people's standards or fit comfortably into the social order, but no matter what others say or convention dictates, they continue to march to their own drummer.

Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

I believe that sociable technology will always disappoint because it promises what it can't deliver," Turkle writes. "It promises friendship but can only deliver 'performances.' Do we really want to be in the business of manufacturing friends that will never be friends?

When it's all said and done, the only thing that matter in life are so damn simple. Family, friends. being safe and well. I think before the war a lot of people got sucked in by the crap on TV. They thought having the right shoes or the right jeans or the right car really mattered. Boy were we ever dumb.

Ook in een tijd van vrede betaal je een prijs om trouw te blijven aan jezelf, om oprecht te leven. Dit heb ik geleerd: hoeveel het ook kost, het is de prijs waard. Je kunt geen oppervlakkig of zinloos leven leiden. Betaal de prijs en wees er trots op dat je dat hebt gedaan, dat is mijn idee.

You were born an original, don't die a copy

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive.