Genuine Quotes

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him. But as long as they can knock you back down, it seems like if you're an underdog again, and things do surface, and they think this is real, 'these guys' intentions are genuine and sincere,' it seems like they will embrace you again.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses.

I think George just nailed the whole thing, the whole time period, the whole look and feel of what that newsroom was like. I did a lot of research for the role and believe me, it's all pretty genuine, down to the very last cigarette butt.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.