Quotes About Brutally Honest

#1. Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

Mary J. Miller

#2. I would doubt that virtue, to her, means abstinence. It is far more likely to mean courage, compassion, and the integrity to be brutally honest, first with yourself and then with others, and never to run away just because you are exhausted or afraid.

Anne Perry

#3. The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

Richard J. Needham

#4. I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

Indra Nooyi

#5. There will be that zip-a-dee-doo-dah after the nominee is chosen. I guarantee there will be that enthusiasm. But to be brutally honest, with all due respect to governor Romney, who is obviously the frontrunner ... hes not garnering a lot of that enthusiasm right now.

Sarah Palin

#6. And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

Joan Rivers

#7. My favorite judge is Simon because he is brutally honest and he thinks I'm

Jordin Sparks

#8. That was one of the reasons I enjoyed talking with her. She was brutally honest and intimidatingly intelligent.

Nabeel Qureshi

#9. I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Boris Johnson

#10. There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.

Tyler Joseph

#11. In real life, I'm so brutally honest that it almost works against me sometimes.

Holland Roden

#12. I'll answer anything ... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

Sarah McLachlan

#13. Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Lauryn Hill

#14. I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

Catherine Hardwicke

#15. To be brutally honest, all these men were falling apart, hair by hair and tooth by tooth, like over-used pieces of equipment, like tools bought cheap for a job that would outlast them. While

Michel Faber

#16. Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

Lori Palatnik

#17. If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Ben Parr

#19. I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

Diane Lane

#20. Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

Reed Hastings

#21. When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.

Ellie Goulding

#22. Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

Mignon McLaughlin

#23. One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

Mikko Hypponen

#24. The best thing about having brothers and sisters is that they're brutally honest. My brother just got the 'Narnia' game, and first thing he does is kill me in it! Six times, over and over again!

William Moseley

#25. The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.

Tom Odell

#26. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

#27. Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

Oona Chaplin

#28. What happened to our friendship? I really think it's our obligation as friends to be brutally honest and be frank with them and say, 'Look, I'm sorry, but your baby is fking boring.'

David Cross

#29. This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I've ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero as he gains a liberating knowledge of himself.

Joe Loya

#30. Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

Sheryl Sandberg

#31. Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Don DeLillo

#32. If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Noel Gallagher

#33. One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

Alana Stewart

#34. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

David Millar

#35. Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you're brutally honest with yourself.

Winna Efendi

#36. It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.

Tim Hiller

#37. If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

Greg Norman

#38. I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

Cristina Saralegui

#39. I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

Donal Logue

#40. My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

Richard Roxburgh

#41. To be brutally honest, I am a little bit of a Clint Eastwood nerd. Clint Eastwood who was the man who drew me into movies. When everybody else was watching Star Wars, I was watching Fistful of Dollars.

James Purefoy

#42. Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one's inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one's daily actions.

Bill Jensen

#43. The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us.

Adam Silvera

#44. I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.

CM Punk

#45. I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

Ellen DeGeneres

#46. Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#47. To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Simon Winchester

#48. I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.

Maya Angelou

#49. ...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

Christopher G. Nuttall