#genuine

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#build #conversation #genuine #i #i tried

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#detect #energy #enthusiasm #ever #fans

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#desire #expect #genuine #holiness #nothing

We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their neighbors. Lots of folks have put their hands over their ears to drown out the suffering. Institutions have distanced themselves from the disturbing cries.. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle. One of the verses I have grown to love is the one where Jesus is preparing to leave the disciples and says, "I no longer call you servants.... Instead, I have called you friends" (John 15:15). Servanthood is a fine place to begin, but gradually we move toward mutual love, genuine relationships. Someday, perhaps we can even say those words that Ruth said to Naomi after years of partnership: "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried" (Ruth 1:16-17). ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#community #genuine-relationships #suffering #beauty

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#genuinely #happy #man #married #married man

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#better #comparison #easily #fills #genuine

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#genuine #having #important #important thing #regard

I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment. ↗

— Gary Numan

#album #albums #because #comes #fans

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#genuine #investment #laws #obstacles #our

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#being #communicated #communication #concentration #demands