Quotes About Integrity

I think the illest thing about Wiz Khalifa is how true to himself he's always been, and I miss that from artists. Nothing about what he does ever felt like he was reaching to be something that he wasn't.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

For us, our stage is always what it is. It's not about reaching the broadest audience as it's about doing quality work.

I don't have any problem with tackles or duels, but I react when I notice that someone is only trying to kick me out of the game. But I never have the intention to hurt anyone. Everything is forgotten again a minute later.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

What I learned: if you've done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can't delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.

All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, 'Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?' I don't care.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.

We try to not write stories based on reaction. We try to write them based on character integrity as we understand it and observe it.

If I try to act cool and do things that get a positive reaction, then I'm not doing anything for the person I'm in the ring with.

People who troll you want a reaction, and there's no point in doing that. I just try to focus on my football.

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.

One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'

Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.