Quotes About Genuineness

We make weird friends," I say instead. "I've never been into the f-word with people." "I'm privileged, then? Why me?" He thinks for a moment and then shrugs again. "You're the realest person I've ever known." "Is that good or bad?" "It's fucking awful. There's not much room for bullshit, and you know how I thrive on it.

This one hear will never be easy, because he's never learned to be false.

Never pretend to understand what you don't understand," Orion used to say, "and never let anybody tell you you should like something. You can educate your taste, but you can't change it. So trust it.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

He wasn't afraid of being laughed at—but he wasn't being comical

In the presence of love, all that is false falls away.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Truth Potion

The secret of life is sincerity and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

There are different layers of honesty—the truth of what you said and the truth of what was in your heart when you spoke the words.

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

Casualness is the enemy of pretense.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

If you're not honest with your work — if you're being merely decorative — then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.

There is an actor in every character you are playing. We are sons, daughters, students, lovers, friends, employees, students, parents, etc. Be true and real under every skin you wear, don't be characterized, be yourself first, sincere, real and get MickeyMized.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

La única verdad es el hombre fisiológico, el que no habla, el que no miente ...»

Integrity is who we are when we're alone. It's when there's alignment between who we are on the inside and how we come across to others on the outside.

Gregor would reference all kinds of books and articles, and instead of paraphrasing them, like any normal lazy person, he'd insist on going online and finding the exact line or quote from the secondary source, adding another five-minute silent section to the meeting, during which he wordlessly surfed online. Later I would realize this is Greg''s signature style. He likes to take in people past the point where they can be putting on a show to impress him.

He likes to take in people past the point where the can be putting on a show to impress him.

be yourselves, don't be other person... come on O Ameerah al-Munawarrah

Just be yourself, because on the inside, that's what counts and that is what makes every person beautiful inside and out.

I ako ti u ovaj tren ne progovoriš, ako ne progovoriš neposredno, neposredno, iskreno, ja ?u od te tvoje konvencionalnosti poludjeti ovdje, na ovome mjestu! Meni je tako užasno, glava mi je tako strašno ogromna, tako tamna, i sve je u meni tamno, a ti si tako neistinit, tako patvoren, tako hladan, dalek, tako pasivno strašan(...).