Top 100 Authenticity's Quotes
#1. Wow," Tate whispered. "They're fucking right on the dance floor. "
"I see that." There was an edge to my words.
Dave gave me a sideways grin. "Juan will cry at being stuck in the van. If he were here, he'd be screaming 'Authenticity's imperative!' and taking his pants down.
Jeaniene Frost
#2. If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. 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
#4. There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.
Vironika Tugaleva
#5. Each man had come to know the other's caricature as a lie.
Chris Matthews
#6. You want to be popular? It's easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
Dan Pearce
#7. With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting.
Jai Courtney
#8. Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
Robert Bresson
#9. I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity.
Alice McDermott
#10. I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
Sidney Sheldon
#11. It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
Nic Pizzolatto
#12. It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
Brene Brown
#13. People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong.
Constance Wu
#14. Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
Thomas P. Campbell
#15. Leadership vision is built on the leader's authenticity.
Pearl Zhu
#16. How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#17. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#18. I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#19. If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
Terrence McNally
#20. It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#21. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
Criss Jami
#22. There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#23. When we are driven by ego and a relentless need to succeed, it's easy to blindly neglect the relationships, self-care and truth that will create joy and authentic fulfillment in our lives.
Shannon Tanner
#24. [ ... ]to be real
to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
Tom McCarthy
#25. The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
Simon Baker
#26. So rich people could go slumming? Come on, give me a break [it's a] masturbatory fantasy for Anna Wintour and Vogue. They always go and try to co-opt what they can't own. They try to co-opt authenticity and turn it into something boring.
Legs McNeil
#27. The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?
Miya Yamanouchi
#28. "Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"
Marcus Buckingham
#30. The only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity.
Nathan Hill
#31. The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity.
Warren Ellis
#32. Transformation doesn't ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that's already inside of you. You only have to bloom.
Cheryl Strayed
#33. I have finally come to realize that it's being forced to be honest with myself that's made my pain painful all along.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. We can't turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Rationing creativity results in bipolarism of the spirit. Our creativity is also our life force. When we turn it off and on like a spigot, we start to become less and less able to control the valve.
S. Kelley Harrell
#35. The 3 A's of awesome: attitude, awareness and authenticity.
Neil Pasricha
#36. Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.
Tom Robbins
#37. 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
#38. One is free from depression," writes Alice Miller in The Drama of the Gifted Child, "when self-esteem is based on the authenticity of one's own feelings and not on the possession of certain qualities.
John Bradshaw
#39. Authenticity is about returning and magnifying who you are, instead of trying to become someone who you think you should be. It's about peeling off the false adornments and standing wholly, holy, and true.
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
#40. I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.
Gary Cole
#41. The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment, and other characterological values that have to be learned and relearned continuously.
Marianne Williamson
#42. I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
Nigel Hamilton
#43. It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Alison Bechdel
#44. 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
#45. Confused? Confusion is good. It's an excellent place to learn something new from.
Henna Inam
#46. I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.
Robert Genn
#47. It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.
Brene Brown
#48. 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
#49. [The atonement's] authenticity and value in no way depend on the response of any man, but depend instead on its satisfaction of God and the demands of His righteousness.
Robert Shank
#50. I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.
Jaime Murray
#51. The real you focuses on goals that inspire you and doesn't let "that's just not me!" stand in the way.
Henna Inam
#52. The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
Zadie Smith
#53. At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated - some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it's important.
Scott Weiss
#54. The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#55. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
Janet Malcolm
#56. It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity.
Daniel Kehlmann
#57. 'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Michael Imperioli
#58. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
#59. Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?
Steve Maraboli
#60. It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#61. Just Another Number was meant to be unresolved because resolving it would destroy its authenticity. It's a memoir. I am unresolved as a human being. And it also leaves room for a sequel.
Maggie Young
#63. Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".
Bishop Robert Barron
#64. Authenticity is really important, and sometimes that's really hard to get.
Tom Freston
#65. What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you will arrive at clarity of mind and a more authentic expression of yourself.
Linda Cull
#66. I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
Chuck Hogan
#67. I find it unnecessary, useless and frankly a bit unnecessary to get into all sorts of debates over President Obama's religion or the authenticity of his birth. I know for some people that it is an obsession. It is not with me.
Mike Huckabee
#68. I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.
Missi Pyle
#69. If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
Lana Del Rey
#70. If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.
Beth Moore
#71. That's what rock music is, I think - constantly searching for authenticity, and being as honest as possible.
Jonathan Jackson
#72. The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.
David O. Russell
#74. Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
Laila Ali
#75. In 1856, shortly before his death, Lord Ellesmere gave the painting to the new National Portrait Gallery in London as its founding work. As the gallery's first acquisition, it has a certain sentimental prestige, but almost at once its authenticity was doubted.
Bill Bryson
#76. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#77. Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.
Andrew Pettegree
#78. There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
Jeanette Winterson
#79. Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
Wayne W. Dyer
#80. When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.
Stephan Jenkins
#81. Indeed, there is something to learn from the openness of children. The immediacy of their pleasure and their emotional authenticity reveals a certain purity that's lacking in adults.
Andrew Furst
#82. 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
#83. Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.
Tina Brown
#84. We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.
Bruce Springsteen
#85. In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
Elizabeth Lesser
#86. Luckily, I am writing a memoir and not a work of fiction, and therefore I do not have to account for my grandmother's unpleasing character and look for the Oedipal fixation or the traumatic experience which would give her that clinical authenticity that is nowadays so desirable in portraiture.
Mary McCarthy
#87. A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it's a sign of authenticity.
Jessica Zafra
#88. Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
Thomas P. Campbell
#89. When my happy gets bumped, what's really going on in my heart is on display. In those times I will either add to the authenticity of my love for Jesus or, sadly, negate it.
Lysa TerKeurst
#90. A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.
Winona Ryder
#91. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
Brene Brown
#92. This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.
Thomas Frank
#93. Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to what's happening now, and creating from it is a critical leadership skill.
Henna Inam
#94. True, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between authentic anger and bullshit and that's why the following exercise is designed to help you express your resentments with integrity, and not with demoralizing bullshit
Will Jelbert
#95. We don't recount our dreams; we construct them with the materials of reality. We aren't looking for God, psychic truth or authenticity, but for esthetic effect. That's why I baptized our movement Structural, or Esthetic, Onirism. Dreams and music were our models.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#97. It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host ... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.
Mike Rowe
#98. When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.
Terry Tempest Williams
#100. 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
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