#authentic

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher

The documents have not been conclusively proven false. Neither have they been proven authentic. ↗

— Bill Burkett

#been #conclusively #documents #false #neither

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#change #cioran #emil-cioran #poet #change

I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical, it does matter whether the New Testament documents are reliable or not'." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#f-f-bruce #historical #r-alan-woods #theological #r-alan-woods

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer. ↗

— Erwin Raphael McManus

#design

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#bone #both #clarity #down #gentleness

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. ↗

— Eminem

#authentic #felt #going #i #i always

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authentic self #become #being #could #done

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#create #fiction #invented #language #need