Brutally Honest Quotes

• Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

  Lauryn Hill

  Relationship, Reality, Honest

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

  Richard J. Needham

  Inspiring, Honesty, Men

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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• Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Integrity, Acceptance, Blessing

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.233, SUNY Press

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• If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

  Noel Gallagher

  Mirrors, Honest, Intention

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• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Sigmund Freud (1954). “The Origns of Psycho- Analysis”

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• I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Feet, Mouths, Honest

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• I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

  Donal Logue

  Thinking, Way, Entertainment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.

  Indra Nooyi

  Views, Looks, Honest

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• Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Honest

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• My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

  Richard Roxburgh

  Honest, Difficult, Waltz

  "The Van Helsing Interviews: Richard Roxburgh". Interview with Staci Layne Wilson, www.horror.com. May 2003.

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• My favorite judge is Simon because he is brutally honest and he thinks I'm

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Judging, Honest

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• Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.

  Lori Palatnik

  Fun, Honest, Brutal

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• Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Real, Kids, Color

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• Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.

  Asher Roth

  Want Something, Honest, Ifs

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Parenting, Motherhood

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Heart, Character, Bridges

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 28, 2007.

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• The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Self, Done, Matter

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself.

  Greg Norman

  Play, Serious, Honest

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• The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend...And the best men cook for you.

  Whitney Otto

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• Some of the things I liked in my years as a student in workshops: the occasional in-class prompt; discussions about what it means to be a writer in the world; professors who are brutally honest and encouraging at the same time (this is a tough one).

  Mary J. Miller

  Mean, Years, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ultimately, I think writing is a mixture of craft, inspiration, and being incredibly, courageously explorative with yourself - and being brutally honest, too.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Inspiration, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Ryan Bartelmay, believermag.com. May 15, 2018.

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• In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark descent into the broken mind of Timothy Robert Shively will send chills down your back. Every word rings true, and every page is dark with menace. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up right now. You can thank me later.

  Joe

  Son, Dark, Blood

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• Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

  Sarah Dessen

  Powerful, Opportunity, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.23, Penguin

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