Quotes About Genuineness

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

I'm not no Internet person.

Integrity means there is not a real-life you and an internet you. The two are one and the same. If you're not kind on the Internet, you're not kind.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

You know you're doing the right thing if you don't have to tap-dance.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube. I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook. Give me one thing I can believe in that isn't a brand name.

For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here. - Toby, Marymount Manhattan College

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders in.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Éramos demasiado nosotros mismos para mentirnos en ficciones.

It was only when I stopped pretending to be someone else that I found my real friends.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

God is more concerned about the attitude of our hearts than the way we express it. Worship isn't supposed to be entertainment.

Too many so-called Christians are like the little chameleon which adapts its coloration to that of its surroundings. Even a critical world is quick to recognize a real Christian and just as quick to detect a counterfeit.

Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!

Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

It doesn't pay to act bulletproof. Nobody is flawless and when you act as if you are, it always rings false.

It's so weird being straight. You have no defenses. Shit happens and you have to feel it. You have no choice.

As long as you're trying to be someone else, or putting on some act or behavior someone else taught you, you have no possibility of truly reaching people. The most valuable thing you have to give people is yourself. No matter what you think you're selling, what you're really offering is you." (p.92)