Authenticity Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Music, Teacher, Mirrors

  "The post-authentic world". "Future Tense" with Antony Funnell, www.abc.net.au. September 23, 2012.

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• In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid.

  Jay Smith

  Queens, Eight, Cells

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination   Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Imagination, Fuel

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• Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Communication, Enthusiasm

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• I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

  Christine Caine

  Life, Being Real, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Mar 31, 2015

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• If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

  Nicole Kidman

  Mistake, Fall, Trying

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 22, 2016

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Thinking, Optimism, Energy

  Twitter post from Jan 12, 2012

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• 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

  Art, Criteria, Sole

  "Six Asides About Culture". "Living in Truth". Book by Václav Havel, 1986.

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• 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

  Use, Drink, Devotion

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• I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Tasks, Defense, Architecture

  "Encounters: Architectural Essays". Book by Juhani Pallasmaa, 2006.

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• Life has been messy for me, as it has for most everyone. I have come to the realization that challenging experiences break us all at some point—our bodies and minds, our hearts and egos. When we put ourselves back together, we find that we are no longer perfectly straight, but rather bent and cracked. Yet it is through these cracks that our authenticity shines. It is by revealing these cracks that we can learn to see and be seen deeply.

  Ping Fu

  Heart, Shining, Ego

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• As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Emotional, Feelings, Trying

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• An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Keys, People, Parent

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

  Nick Laird

  Home, Enough, Squalor

  Nick Laird (2009). “Glover's mistake”

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• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  Charles E. Schaefer

  Fun, Play, Alive

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• When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You leave the darkness of the closet and begin a life of honesty, authenticity and freedom.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Honesty, Gay, Darkness

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• I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.inlander.com

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• 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

  People, Challenges, Everyday

  "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

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• I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passion, Guy, Gold

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

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• I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

  Tom Green

  Real, Trying, Actors

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Faces, Life Is

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• Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Taken, Writing, Weight

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.84, Macmillan

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