Quotes About Genuineness

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

never fall for anyone who prefers speaking someone else's words.

I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.

I don't want friends who are kind without really liking me and I don't want anybody who is kind just so as not to be unpleasant.

Seules la passion et la joie peuvent être honnêtes. Rien de ce qu'on m'a forcée à faire n'a jamais apporté de joie. Ni à moi ni à ceux qui m'entourent.

The more people advertise their love, the more fake it is. Why show it off to the world, when its meant to be confidential and between only the two of you. It just makes people wonder how true your love really is'

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

mean, not the crocodile. Definitely not in the reptile-throwing business, me.

Scare People with Sincerity

What is most important is that team members get comfortable letting their colleagues see them for who they are. No pretension. No positioning.

you will have to leave behind your need to appear perfect, and instead be appropriately transparent with others.

When the situation seems to be exactly what it appears to be, the closest likely alternative is that the situation has been completely faked; when fakery seems extremely evident, the next most probable possibility is that nothing fake is present.—Erving Goffman, Strategic Interaction

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

Beware of anyone who tries to please you all the time.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?