Quotes About Sincerity

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.

I just like to be real and just express real emotions and talk about real life.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

As far as the creative process goes, I always make sure that anything that gets discussed or talked about in the record is true to form. I make it a point not to sing anything that I haven't felt or gone through.

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

I wasn't out there pretending I was a conservative Democrat. I'm somebody who has talked a lot about and has done the act of running as who you are.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

I don't go out of my way to be a smack talker, you can ask me about anyone and I'll give you my honest opinion.

If you're not talking about the truth, I don't even want you around me.

I don't like to sugarcoat. I don't like to say things without feeling it. I like to get to the point and say exactly what I'm talking about.

I am comfortable talking about everything because I think you can't hide it. I can't hide what I'm doing. I can't lie to people when they see something.

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

First, babies are very expressive emotionally, giggling or crying or recoiling in terror or disgust so strongly that you have no doubt what they're feeling. Also, babies are blissfully ignorant of social constraints. An adult might try to stifle a guffaw if he thinks the humor in a video clip is sophomoric (albeit hilarious) and censor a disgusted grimace if he thinks showing disgust is unmanly. Babies wear their emotions on their sleeves.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

In Celebration of Discipline Richard Foster makes a distinction between self-righteous service and true service. Self-righteous service flows out of human effort and goals; true service flows out of God and love.6

Devotion means putting in extra hours because you believe in something and you want to see it work. You believe in something with all your heart and are very passionate about it.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

Their life is a lie. I would rather live an honest life than an admired lie.