And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
from Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”
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And if I’m honest in the work, maybe I could be honest as a person. Maybe.
Honesty is a core, core, core value. By honesty, I mean I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I have to watch what I say. If I disconnect what I’m thinking from what I’m saying, it creates multiple threads in my mind. I’m no longer in the moment—now I have to be future-planning or past-regretti
... See morefrom The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Tim Ferriss
I often feel this way. I think most people do
I have a lot of things swirling in my head, a lot of words written, often shared over a glass of wine but never broadcast. Maybe this is the way I finally share?
Katie Geminder added
putting myself out in the world in a way that makes me feel good about it...
lili added
I haven’t always been honest. I try. And I hope I’m getting better. I try every day to improve and to follow the advice I’ve just given you. Otherwise I wouldn’t have given it.
from Choose Yourself! by James Altucher
- I’m beginning to realize the start of all intimacy and true understanding is when you say what you really mean.
from valley of things unsaid
- Be myself, express myself, show myself, that seems like such a basic formula, and so horribly syrup-y that I can hardly believe these words can even be produced on this keyboard. But that basic formula is the foundation of my recovery and has helped me resolve the greatest fear of my life. The fear of being myself and by myself. This may seem trite... See more
from To Thine Own Self be True
Frank Brown added
- A big breakthrough for me – life as a whole – came when I figured out that making solid progress on creative work, and enjoying the process rather than hating it, is in large part a matter of being willing to be who you actually are.
sari added
My whole sense of reality was tied into the deception, built into the façades. To be honest would have meant dismantling the whole structure, all the assumptions and impressions about myself I’d worked so hard to create: I’m together, in control; I’m the person you want me to be. To tell the truth would have meant disclosing my full self, owning up
... See morefrom Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp