Quotes About Genuineness

A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I'm just me all the time. I'm normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten it true.

I am not that creative. And therefore you must be real.

Your authority in part comes from your authenticity, the authenticity of your struggles and your flawed humanity.

Fake people can be silenced with truth.

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.

I realised something. Since leaving for Nymanteles, since coming clean with my friends, being honest with them, I'd been nobody but me. No pretence. No lies. I had been me. I had found me.

Reviews and the show's own publicity always stressed its "realism." There is no doubt it

Presiding over the "genuine blanket

We have become a society of fakes, so intent copying the famous that we cannot figure out who we are.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be — and without having to pretend.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

BEING (models) instead of SEEMING (actors).

In your passion for the true, people may see nothing but faddism.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Not just pain, but bullshit. Avoiding bullshit.

Those who are truly original and different do not need to make a great show of it.

To think that by doing more you are doing better is a common blunder. It is never good to seem to be trying too hard—it is as if you were covering up some deficiency.

You will also become humbler, realizing you're not superior to others in the way you had imagined. This will not make you feel guilty or weighed down by your self-awareness, but quite the opposite. You will accept yourself as a complete individual, embracing both the good and the bad, dropping your falsified self-image as a saint. You will feel relieved of your hypocrisies and free to be more yourself. People will be drawn to this quality in you.