Authenticity famous quotes
05-25-2025
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-- Abraham Lincoln -
The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.
-- Alan Cohen -
American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.
-- Ang Lee -
No man can prophesy with another's parable.
-- Anna Julia Cooper -
It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
-- Bill Hybels -
The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.
-- Cary Fukunaga -
The problem is we're looking for something that doesn't exist. We're looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It's about its scaffolding.
-- Chris Abani -
I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.
-- Christine Caine -
It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.
-- Claudia Black -
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
-- Criss Jami -
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
-- Dana Spiotta -
Authenticity is absolutely the key to a great tweet.
-- Dick Costolo -
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
-- Eric Cantona -
Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
-- Ethel Waters -
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.
-- Eva Hoffman -
And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt
-- F. F. Bruce -
We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.
-- Gabrielle Roth -
We are constantly invited to be who we are.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
-- Howard Rheingold -
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
-- Isaac Newton -
The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.
-- Jason Calacanis -
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
-- John Hawkes -
Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.
-- John Michael Greer -
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.
-- Kingsley Amis -
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.
-- Kingsley Amis -
The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.
-- Leonard Sweet -
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.
-- Lisa Kristine -
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.
-- Lissa Rankin -
Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.
-- Marcus Mumford -
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
-- Martin Seligman -
Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
-- Melissa Etheridge -
No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
-- Michael Bierut -
Authenticity is about being true to who you are, even when everyone around you wants you to be someone else
-- Michael Jordan -
The 3 A's of awesome: attitude, awareness and authenticity.
-- Neil Pasricha -
She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.
-- Nick Laird -
What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
-- Oriah Dreamer -
A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
-- Oscar Romero -
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
-- Patricia Hewitt -
Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
-- Peter Guber -
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.
-- Rick Warren -
When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?
-- Robert Holden -
Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.
-- Scarlett Thomas -
The universe will pay you to be yourself and do what you really love.
-- Shakti Gawain -
Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
-- Simon Sinek -
Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.
-- Stephen Fry -
Run, run, run - with everything you have - into everything you are meant to be.
-- Tama J. Kieves -
Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.
-- Todd Duncan -
Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.
-- Tom Freston -
Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
-- Tom Shadyac -
The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
-- Torkom Saraydarian -
If we want authenticity we have to initiate it.
-- Travis Rice -
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
-- Vaclav Havel -
Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity.
-- Willie Garson -
When you are real in your music, people know it and they feel your authenticity.
-- Wynonna Judd -
Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.
-- Chip Espinoza -
I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.
-- Eric Benet -
As a species, we're always seeking out authenticity. We're dying for authenticity. We smell it immediately, and we also smell even the slightest riff of somebody who's not completely true to who they are. We have that ability because, as a species, we have organized around stories. We tell them and we subscribe to them.
-- Jonathan Tucker -
I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
-- K'naan -
I'm interested in cinematic realism. I think there is a rich potential to bring to audiences people they haven't seen before, that they are discovering a bit like how we discover people in life for the first time. There's an authenticity that can't be denied.
-- Matthew Porterfield -
Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.
-- Susanna White -
The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.
-- Wolfgang Tillmans -
Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.
-- Adam Morris -
We are all living this dance and it is clearly fraught with making choices. Lots of my choices are bad and that's normal. None of us are attractive at all times. What is attractive to me is authenticity.
-- Andre Dubus -
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
-- Annabelle Selldorf -
To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.
-- Christine Ebersole -
I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.
-- Danny Trejo -
Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.
-- Rhymefest -
When we no longer are afraid of who we are we act from integrity and authenticity.
-- Richard Strozzi-Heckler
