Authenticity
- 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 1y ago
“I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”
–Frank Ghery
Alara added 9mo ago
- “People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.” -John Lennon
sari added 1y ago
- Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
phoebe added 1y ago
I'd either drive people away or they'd come in closer to see what it was all about. There was no in between.
-Bob Dylan
Alara added 8mo ago
- “I think one of the marks of maturity […] - is the willingness to be seen exactly as I am. As we grow more settled and mature, we become less hidden to others, more transparent to ourselves as well as to each other. With this growing authenticity comes a deepening of intimacy with each other. We are no longer appearances banging against eac... See more
lili added 1y ago
- instead of asking: how can i be more like them? ask: how can i be more like me? how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they show care to others? what are they afraid of? what do they dream about at night?
alex added 1y ago
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