Quotes About Self-disclosure

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Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.

I use knowing things about people as an excuse to keep them from knowing me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

I've got Tourette's, practically. I'll tell anyone anything.

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

I share every aspect of my life with the internet. Whether or not that's a good thing I don't know.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public.

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself - honestly, that's probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.

I didn't really come out and expose my age.

I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

Men's concern with status differentials has implications for their intimacy with friends. Because an element of competition always exists between them, men are wary about self-disclosure to other men.

I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.

Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it does not necessarily mean that I have to go out on social media and tell you where I'm eating.

When you speak in riddles, it exasperates me. Yet when you try to speak clearly of yourself, it frightens me.