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Quotes About Genuineness

Please don't say maana if you don't mean it I have heard those words for so very long. Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it. Don't ever forget that you just may wind up being wrong.
~ James William "Jimmy" Buffett
I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
I'm just me – half a family, no awareness whatsoever about style, or what's in and what's out. I'm not like the lizards. I don't really even know how I'm supposed to be with a guy that I'm attracted to. I've never been a game player. I don't know how to be coy… or sexy… or whatever. I have no finesse.
~ Jan Coffey
When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Some People have Different Faces but Remember with one Face we will always go to the End.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
beautiful. Untarnished by the touches of other men, unencumbered with pride and vanity
~ Jane Henry
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
~ Janet Lane
Perhaps it is in speaking of our falseness that we can be true.
~ Janice Graham
I hate fake people. You know what I'm talking about. Mannequins.
~ Jarod Kintz
So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.
~ Jason Fried
It's a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.
~ Jason Fried
Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.
~ Jason Fried
Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic. So talk like you really talk. Reveal things that others are unwilling to discuss. Be upfront about your shortcomings. Show the latest version of what you're working on, even if you're not done yet. It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.
~ Jason Fried
may I be I is the only prayer
~ e e cummings
Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true
~ E.E. Cummings
I knew he was the real thing because when he laughed other men at the table laughed with him.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.
~ Edith Stein
La verdadera soledad consiste en vivir entre toda esa gente encantadora que sólo te pide que finjas!
~ Edith Wharton
I wonder whether he is the real thing, or only the bundle of eccentricities he appears."106
~ Edmund Morris
when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled.
~ Edward Gorey
Maggie felt sorry for her, a woman surrounded by beautiful expensive things, all of them by authentic designers, genuine gold-trims, the best-quality fabrics and woods, rare collector accessories of porcelain and ceramic—nothing artificial except her personality. Maggie
~ Alex Kava