#authentic

Often misconstrued, authenticity is not about being an open book, revealing every detail of yourself without rhyme or reason. It is simply the act of openly and courageously seeing what needs to be seen, saying what needs to be said, doing what needs to be done, and becoming that which you are intent on being. ↗

— Scott Edmund Miller

#courage

When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability to produce a breakthrough in your leadership and team. Everything starts with your self-awareness. You cannot take charge without taking accountability, and you cannot take accountability without understanding how you avoid it. ↗

— Loretta Malandro

#authentic-leadership #self-awareness #victim-mentality #experience

Polarities of the 'authentic' vs. the 'inauthentic' are easily discernible in recreational modes. The criteria of authenticity are not necessarily objective but rather have to do with the rules by which the self allows or disallows its own experience. ↗

— Walker Percy

#existentialism #experience #genuineness #the-self #experience

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am. ↗

— Melanie Hooyenga

#identity #life #self #life

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

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#growth #purpose #self-care #success #thriving

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#been #does #ever #genius #me

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering