Being True Quotes - Page 40

• If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.

  Horace Pippin

  Hard Times, Men, Paint

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• A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Cybernetics, Environment, Imagine

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.28, Penguin

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• It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

  Masaru Emoto

  Love, Gratitude, Truth

  Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

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• Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

  William Blake

  Records, Bureaucracy

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.392, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The key is to be true to your community's norms and values. You can't just force yourself on people and try to sell them something they don't want - that's good advice for marketers generally, but particularly on community-driven sites like MySpace. You have to find ways to add value to your members' lives while being consistent with your brand's identity.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Business, Keys, People

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• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  Feist

  Happiness, Romantic Love, People

  "Feist: A Pop Star With A Punk-Rock Past". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 30, 2011.

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• Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

  Joseph O'Connor

  Learning, Knowledge, Belief

  Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott (1997). “The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving”, Thorsons Pub

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• Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Hard Work, Be True To Who You Are, Never Expect

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2011

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• Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Lonely, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are of two kinds: errors that turn out to be true and errors that turn out to be false (which are most of them). But they both have the same character of being an imaginative speculation. I say all this because I want very much to talk about the human side of discovery and progress, and it seems to me terribly important to say this in an age in which most non-scientists are feeling a kind of loss of nerve.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Character, Loss, Two

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.84, Yale University Press

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• Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Focus, Independence, Tasks

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2012). “The 2012 Collection”, p.205, Penguin

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• True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

  Philip Caputo

  Way, Believer, Ifs

  Philip Caputo (2005). “Acts of Faith”, p.146, Vintage

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• Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Believe, Japan, Stories

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• My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Army, Thinking

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• People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  People, May, Too Much

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Anecdotes, Literature

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• To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the incarnation of the truth. It penetrates the surface of things to portray them as they really are.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Important, Surface

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• All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

  C. S. Lewis

  Miracle, Humans, Validity

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• Be true to yourself and you will never fail.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Failure, Be True To Yourself, Failing

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• This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.

  William McGurn

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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• If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Want, Sometimes

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• Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Ideas, Clay

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and in front of hundreds of witnesses, 'this is what I know to be true; this is my point of view and I will risk my life for it. Think of me what you will, I will fight - with any and every means available to me - for what I know is as right and as necessary as air and water.'

  Larry Silverberg

  Real, Mean, Fighting

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• It cannot be, because the way man has treated woman has been basically wrong. Only between two equal persons is there a possibility of relationship, because fear is not there - one can be open, one can be true, one can be honest. Only between two equal persons, when there is no fear, is there love. Love arises when fear has left you. When fear is there, love cannot enter: they are never together.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Men, Two

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