Quotes About Genuineness

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm an open book.

I'm an open book.

I tried to live my life really openly and transparently right from the get-go. I think that probably resonated with people.

I really live my life openly.

At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.

The truth is rarely pure

You make me sound like an arrogant ass, he said. Are you? No! I'm just me.

Blandt mennesker er der langt flere kopier end originaler.

Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.

A truly humble person won't try to impress you, manipulate you, judge you, criticize you, or put you in your place. Humble people are safe to be around. You can relax. You can be yourself.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.

What does the number of copies have to do with authenticity?

There's just no substitute for the truth.

Without Wax...

Cuando una pregunta carece de respuesta correcta, sólo queda la respuesta sincera.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you are.

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."

There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.