#authentic

On my resume I have an awards category. It has one entry. It is the highlight of my life. I’m not trying to impress you or make you overly jealous. I’m merely documenting. OK, so maybe I am gloating a bit. Here it is, exactly as it appears on my resume. “Awards: I won third place in the 100-yard dash in the fourth grade. I still carry around my green ribbon with me wherever I go. The ribbon is available for authenticity inspection upon request, and my fourth grade PE coach’s phone number can also be provided to corroborate the validity of my claim.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#award #awards #category #claim #coach

Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we were only the Shakespeares to see it. Have you ever been in a Police Court? Have you ever watched tradesmen behind their counters? My soul, the secrets walking in the streets! You jostle them at every corner. There's a Polonius in every first-class railway carriage, and as many Juliets as there are boarding-schools. ... How inexhaustibly rich everything is, if you only stick to life. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#writers #writing #life

Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. ↗

— Howard Schultz

#brand-loyalty #branding #advertising

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does... ↗

— Howard Schultz

#branding #advertising

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#growth #purpose #self-care #success #thriving

Living a spiritual life may not be easy. It demands total authenticity. It brings you to dance to a unique song that only you can hear fully, and sometimes you dance alone because no others can hear the music. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#debra-moffitt #following-a-unique-path #life-journey #non-fiction-books-inspirational #soul-dance

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#been #does #ever #genius #me

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#children #find #go #sincerity #where

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows