Quotes About Genuineness

Nothing is so unimpressive as behavior designed to impress

You have to be yourself. Everyone else is taken.

But you don't want a retrospective, and you really don't want a summary. You want a rich, cohesive, detailed, and real view into the person's personal life or job.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Be yourself. Always be yourself. If people can't penetrate unimportant surface issues, they're never going to appreciate your fundamental qualities anyway.

You have to be yourself," she said, more than half wishing her nature was as brave as his. "Once you start pretending, you tend to get stuck with it.

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

Es necesario no fingir que filosofamos, sino filosofar realmente; no necesitamos, en efecto, aparentar que estamos sanos, sino estarlo verdaderamente.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

To be fake in this dreamy universe is to believe in actual authenticity and behave accordingly, and to be in tune with the real is to know it's all phony and to create, with a generous heart, your own sweet ruse.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

At some point people do question the kind of life they are leading and wonder whether it is actually the life they want to live. Do they merely experience a series of 'phony' moments and a succession of fake sequences, or are they actually building up a authentic life story that gives them the enrichment they have been looking forward to. ( "Quest for the real moment" )

Some abandon everything for the outward shell, in the interest of "glitter and looks", let freeze themselves in artificial postures and renounce realness and sense of self, for the sake of fake appearances, which do not belong to their personality. They live through the eyes of others and cannot enjoy an individual life. Their pathetic fate is an impressive lack of authenticity, spontaneity, candidness, which is a unique key to an open-minded existence. ("Like a frozen image")

For me, far more important than whether teachers have calm voices is how authentic they are—how much of their true selves they allow into their teaching.

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

There are those who believe that clumsiness and truthfulness go together. But cumbersomeness does not necessarily imply a sincere heart.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

why do you think poseurs pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real, an almost magical zone of unselfed sensation, and they know their very desire for it disqualifies them. Consider that, the next time you cluck your tongue at some awful, grandiose fake. Dude just wants to feel.

Loving talk is cheap when costly deeds are required.

If you try to chase it, if you try to follow trends and anticipate what the next thing is going to be, you will fail. You just have to leave it, you have to go with what it is. You have to be true, you have to be honest.

What you seem to be, be really.

What you would seem to be, be really.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native luster about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.