Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Authenticity Quotes
AuthenticityCourageGrowthHumilitySelf-awareness The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
AuthenticityDeceptionEmotionSimplicityTruth Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.
AuthenticityGenuinenessHeart Over MindLove When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
AuthenticitySelf-AcceptanceSelf-Knowledge Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
AuthenticityCommunicationHumilitySelf-awarenessSimplicity I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.
ArtistryAuthenticityCreativityExpressionMessage Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.
Artistic GrowthAuthenticityCreativitySelf-ExpressionSource of Inspiration Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
AmbitionAuthenticityConflictCultural DifferencesDetermination I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
AuthenticityIndividualityPerception I think there is a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.
AuthenticityCareerHumorLuckSelf-awareness I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.
AuthenticityConnectionTimeTrustVulnerability Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
AuthenticityIndividualismIntegritySelf-Expression I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.
AuthenticityHeroismPatriotismPeaceViolence Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
AuthenticityCautionDiscernmentFiltering The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
AuthenticityFameIdentityPressure There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
AuthenticityIdentity I wouldn't wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I've come to know her that way, too.
AuthenticityCourageFulfillmentIntegrityPassion Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
AuthenticityPassionSincerity Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
AuthenticityEmotionJoyOpposites Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
AuthenticityDirectnessHonestySelf-Expression My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.
AuthenticitySatisfactionSelf-ApprovalSelf-ImageSelf-Judgment A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
AuthenticityDefiance of NormsIndividual PassionInner StrengthSelf-Expression I would never win an award for not loving pizza.
AmbitionAuthenticityDriveIndependent Career The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.