Inauthenticity Quotes & Sayings

The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry ... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination ... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed. — Joshua Reynolds

It gets lonely. I miss my family on stage. This might change one day. I'm certainly not going to say I'm not going to work with them again. — El DeBarge

We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica. — Jeff Kinney

As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a repulsive thing so that it is acceptable to the world that their function is deeply suspect. The women who dare not go out without their false eyelashes are in serious psychic trouble. — Germaine Greer

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself. — Charles Spurgeon

The earth was actually shuddering. It was as if you were a baby and your mother was shuddering with cold. — Michael Shaara

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too. — Gilbert Sorrentino

I love you, I'll never stop. — Ann Brashares

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church. — Rich Mullins

Liberty ... is there only when there is no abuse of power. — Baron De Montesquieu

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story. — Steve Maraboli

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing. — Michael Meade

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children. — Ann Beattie

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality. — Sam Keen

Being in tune to one's Will and working accordingly shears the malaise of inauthenticity. — Garry Fitchett

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. — Martin Seligman

An echo has no voice of its own. — Marty Rubin

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. — James McGreevey

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price

One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity. — Michael Keaton

More times than not, my pain stems from an area in which I've been least authentic. The second I identify the source - the area of my inauthenticity - I begin to feel better. This allows me to take complete responsibility for my emotional discomfort, and the awareness enables me to move beyond the blockage. I become energetically unstuck, allowing the pain to pass through me. — Romany Malco

But in general one senses a certain inauthenticity in saddling public schools with the mission of convincing children of the beauties of their particular ethnic origins. Ethnic subcultures, if they had genuine vitality, would be sufficiently instilled in children by family, church, and community. It is surely not the office of the public school to promote artificial ethnic chauvinism. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Primitive people alienate themselves in their mana, their totem; civilized people in their individual souls, their egos, their names, their possessions, and their work: here is the first temptation of inauthenticity. — Simone De Beauvoir

My favorite text message: I'll be there in 5 minutes ... if not, read this again. — Anonymous