Words matter. These are the best Be True Quotes from famous people such as Joe Paterno, Damien Rice, Eric Schmidt, Michaela Coel, John C. Calhoun, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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Here, I have an opportunity to affect the lives of a lot of young people – and not just on my football team. I’m not kidding myself that that would be true at the professional level.
I’m not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don’t want that. I just want to be true. I want to be… I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
The funny thing about advertising is that it’s not a zero-sum game… Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it’s possible for everyone to win, and it’s perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!
Technology gets a bad rap for keeping us glued to our screens instead of being present with whomever is around us, and while this can be true, it also allows us to connect with billions of people all over the world. For free.
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what’s ‘in’ or copy something that someone else has done.
What is needed to pass gay marriage is not a Democratic majority – this past year has proven that to be true – but politicians and judges comfortable enough to ignore what the majority of the voters want and do what is uncomfortable, unpopular – and morally right.
I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and same-sex marriage, then they should be true to who they are, and I think that the world could benefit by more love.
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: ‘Gone with the Wind’ from the viewpoint of the ruling class, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books’ controversial themes.
On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
I identify as an agent when I’m agenting, and I identify as an author when I’m writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I’m able to do them.
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself – to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.
I think, at the end of the day, you have to live a truthful life and be true to yourself. You have one life, and everything has to fall into place around that.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
There is an art to acting, and there are techniques that are acquired. You can be as emotional as you’d like, as a person, but figuring out ways that you can bring specific emotions at specific times and have them be true, and relating to someone as someone that they’re not, is a lot.
It might be true that we all like to be entertained, but it’s also true that we all like to be equally touched by a film.
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
When Keats says: ‘Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses’, what he means is that we don’t necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they’re destined to be.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it’s easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
You want a diverse writers’ room, not because it’s the fair thing to do or the right thing to do, but because it’s the best thing to do for your show. I’ve seen that to be true.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
All views can’t be true because all views are opposite; this is the logical aspect. For example, Islam says we are good in nature; Christianity says we are born in sin. Islam says God is a man; Christianity says He is more than a man, He is God. All truths can’t be the same.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
With ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ it was a different level of commitment for me with reference to helping the creators be true to their vision. I’ve been able to enjoy this game as much as a fan as I am a part of the creative process, and that’s a very rare and unique for me.
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.
At the end of the day, the way I go about it is don’t let somebody else’s opinion of you define who you are. Don’t let other people’s thoughts or whatever it is be true.
I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you’ll never ask, ‘Why doesn’t the painting look like the sculpture?’
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
After all the stuff that I’ve been through, I’m trying to rebuild my brand and be true to who I am, and be authentic, and make the truest, realest content that I can.
Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn’t know her.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn’t learn a lot from her just wouldn’t be true.
It’s important to be true to yourself and your vision.
Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there’s no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.
You know, American citizens, I don’t think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.
Instead of trying to be ‘radical,’ I just try to be true to myself! Is it radical to be true to yourself? Maybe it is. I don’t know, but it just makes sense to me, haha!
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
In the digital age, it is easier than ever to publish false information, which is quickly shared and taken to be true – as we often see in emergency situations, when news is breaking in real time.
It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or mind reading, you’ve just got more time to devote to understanding the world by systemizing.
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
Economically, many folks don’t feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it’s a question of priority. I feel it’s one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants – DuPont, Monsanto – make huge money by poisoning us.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
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Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking – about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it – and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true.
I have to be true to myself, and that’s what I know for sure. I can’t try to be anybody else.
I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.
If someone’s liver doesn’t work, we blame it on the genes; if someone’s brain doesn’t work properly, we blame the school. It’s actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don’t want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Monsters can be scary, and they’re great, but they’re only really scary when they’re reflections of us and they show you the things you’re scared of might be true about your own nature.
No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it’s good to be true to who you are.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?
I know that Christ doesn’t say it’s gonna be an easy life, but he’s there to get us through it. I believe with all my heart the Bible to be true.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
I’ve probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has proved the opposite to be true.
When I started Chipotle, I didn’t know the fast-food rules. People told us the food was too expensive and the menu was too limited. Neither turned out to be true.
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one’s mind.
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
As a society, we’re failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true – that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite – a sign of weakness.
The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
My dad claims that he was able to trace us back to the West Virginia Hatfields. When I look at the old pictures, the patriarchs have kind of a physical likeness to some of the men on the father’s side of my family. I want it to be true.
Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there’s no other way.
If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
You’ve got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
The important thing in investing is to be true to your compass.
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
As a self-proclaimed doctor of love, I know a couple things to be true: One, when you get a chance to kiss a beautiful woman, you take it. Secondly, there’s no crying in baseball or on video shoots.
I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you’ll probably have a good match!
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Oh, I love to lie. That’s one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn’t possibly be true.
It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.
To be true to a play, you can’t add something that takes away from the author’s intent.
Yeah you just have to be true to yourself, know where you come from, make sure that your relationships with family members back in country, back home, are really strong so that connection is always there.
If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I’d say always be true to yourself.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.
I’m just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I’m just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.
The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I’m very grateful for it. But I’m also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true – those fundamentals of faith.
What I’ve learned from different designers is that it’s key to be true to who you are and your vision. That’s always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don’t want to create something I wouldn’t be proud to wear.
I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I’m not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It’s a whole different thing.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I’ve had writing sessions with people, but I’ve never had one where you’re just there, and you start making a song, and then it’s too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
You’ve got to be true to who you are and what you do. I’m more of a hip-hop feel person. Music is how you feel. The younger the mind, that’s how I wanna be.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Before I’m a writer, I’m definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
It’s so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn’t right; this isn’t me.’ It’s a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you’re not feeling something that’s true to your heart… everybody’s gotta be true.
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don’t.
I think it’s very important to do things the way you want to do them and be true to yourself, your own goals, and your own ideals.
We’re understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true.
Always be true to you. But learn how to adapt, too. That’s something I wish I did when I was younger.
I don’t have that X factor; I have to bank on my skills, be true to my character, and hope to be accepted.
When I came up with Ethereum, my first first thought was, ‘Okay, this thing is too good to be true.’ As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good – fundamentally, completely sound.
You have to be true to yourself.
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Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God’s grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.
We might as well be true with ourselves.
No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
I just encourage young girls to be true to themselves.
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.
As far as the banking industry is concerned – and I am sure it must be true for various industries as well – is that the only thing that is constant is change. Your business models are changing, the customer demands are changing and the regulations are changing constantly.
Mandela was true to himself, to his people and his principles. He sacrificed everything because he was prepared to be true to his ideals. You can relate to him whether you come from Manchester or Soweto.
There are very few things I’ve ever been a part of that I believe in more than the Iran deal, and everything I said I believe to be true, and I was trying to make a case about the facts.
Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there’s no other way.
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Don’t let people treat you like you’re stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
We always think, ‘Well, for a person who’s blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.’ Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It’s rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Be true to yourself, pick something that really matters to them and is dear to them.
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.
I try to live every day as present’ as I can, see the good in it, see the good in people, see the good in my career and always wanting to be true to myself.
Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.
When I came to Spain, people thought I would fly home again after the holidays, stay up all night celebrating, and would have no discipline. That may be true of other players, but it’s not my way.
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That’s a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we’re doing, it would be a lot more fun.
Always be true to you. But learn how to adapt, too. That’s something I wish I did when I was younger.
Someone like my father will improvise as much as 90% of the music in concert, but with me it’s maybe 10 to 20%. It’s sort of the test of how great someone is, the more they can improvise correctly and still be true to the raga they’re playing, and still keep it new and fresh the whole time.
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That which is cannot be true.
We just want to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. Be true to ourselves and make the best music we can. Entertain people which is what we were put on this Earth for.
You don’t want to alienate your audiences, so you have to be careful but yet you have to be true enough to what you believe.
It’s common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I’m going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.
No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it’s good to be true to who you are.
The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn’t turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
Our moms accuse us of selling out all the time, so we’re still trying to cope with that. They claim to be true fans, like they’ve been there from the beginning, and they think that we’ve kind of, like, changed as humans.
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
There’s no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.
I do my best to be true to who I am.
Be true to yourself and go with your instincts – don’t be somebody you’re not just to fit in.
It’s going to be true that anything that reduces the federal deficit will have somebody unhappy.
Be true to your heart… put your whole heart and soul into it, and then whatever you do, it will shine through.
That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
You’re not going to hear me do a rap song, you’re not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
I’m going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I’m a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can’t live life that way, man!
So it’s hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
I’ve never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I’ve found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.
But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
I am trying to be true to the work that I want to do and be allowed to make the choices that I want to make.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true – that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities.
It gives me confidence to know that what I’m writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I’m writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.
I’ve only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn’t move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.
I just work hard, keep my head down and be true to who I am.
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I’ve learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don’t get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.
The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we’ve made a lot of music. Anybody’s music can influence anybody. I’ve heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.
Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
The Senate has a reputation as quite a collegial place, and I have found that to be true, especially with the women.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
If you’re trying to avoid one move that you don’t think is going to work out, don’t then settle for a different move that maybe doesn’t check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There’s always another day to fight.
Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.
If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations – and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.
The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
‘Instagram’ can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that’s true with ‘WhatsApp,’ and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future.
Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.
While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.
I know I must be true to myself.
Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only ‘formula’ I believe in towards making a good writer is: ‘to thine own self be true!’
I finally at some point in high school just decided that’s what I was going to do. I was going to be true to myself.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life?
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn’t really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Sometimes I’m just like, ‘I cannot hold onto this anymore,’ and it’s time to say something. And at the end of the day, I’ve just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.
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I now realize the parts I played are too good to be true.
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you’re paying them can they ever really be true friends?
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
I’ve seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete.
That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.
I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.
Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.
Some of the craziest aspects about ‘Weeper’ were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.
I’ve taken a lot of pride in that, and not feeling any pressure to yield or to bend to what someone else’s imagination of who I should be is. I’m grateful for that, and I still want to continue to do that. It can sound cliche, ‘be true to yourself,’ but that does mean something.
It used to be true that to succeed in the creative class, you had to move immediately to where the action was. It was how you made connections, how you got auditions, how you found an audience and funding and some attention for your craft. But not anymore.
If you have the quality, you can only improve as a young player through match practice. That seems obvious, and it’s proven to be true in my case.
Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.
I feel there is no prescribed notion about how strong or how smart one should be. I rather believe one should be themselves and be true to everyone.
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn’t load a revolver.
I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.
‘1600 Penn’ was a hit. It’s 2018. Anything you want can be true.
As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.
You have to do things right to stay in business, and that’s not easy, and that’s a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.
‘ The Lucky One’ is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks’ persuasive storytelling. Readers don’t read his books because they’re true, but because they ought to be true.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I’ve always been interested in visualizing something, whether it’s a memory or an idea you want to be true. I am a big believer in that. I’m constantly thinking of that. If I can’t picture something, then it doesn’t make sense to me.
There are so many good roles for women out there, I don’t understand it when people say the role choices are fewer as you get older. I find the opposite to be true – there are less good roles out there for the hot 20-year-olds because the normal girl parts just aren’t interesting.
I don’t believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.
My music is going to be true. I’m not out to sell records. I’m experiencing something, and it’s what I feel.
Whatever the situation at hand, that’s what I’m dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
I think the most important part of anyone creating videos or creating anything is just being genuine and having it be true to what you want to do and who you are.
As we were developing ‘Umbral’, and I was delving into the mythology and legends, I had a sudden realisation. ‘Wasteland’ is about people who fervently believe new myths and legends, but they turn out to be false; whereas ‘Umbral’ is about people who reject ancient myths and legends, but they turn out to be true!
When you’re a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you’re smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.
When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.
‘Let God be true but every man a liar’ is the language of true faith.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
I’m a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn’t change things.
It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.
It’s not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
If we’re saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don’t think saying, ‘Well, in country X, Y or Z it’s 10 times worse’ is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can’t we improve?
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
You know very well that unless you’re a scientist, it’s much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.
The point is to be true to yourself – otherwise you may as well give up.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Authenticity is very important – be true to one’s self.
Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He’s an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they’re stereotypes because they’re true.
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can’t really be true.
New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez relies on a lot of economic ignorance to get you to believe what’s not true could be true.
At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge ‘facts’ ‘everybody’ knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
‘The Story Of A Marriage’ was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the ’50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.
I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don’t even know what you’re praying to or who you’re praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God’s always listening.
Just because people say things, they’re supposed to be true?
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Just be true all the way through, and people can’t do anything but respect you for it.
‘Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don’t be deterred from that. Just develop that something that’s unique to you that you feel you can give. Be true to yourself, trust your own judgment; that’s all.
Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.
I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us.
Be true to yourself and surround yourself with positive, supportive people.
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
I’m one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.
Being appreciated for playing a female warrior seems too good to be true. I enjoy playing such empowered roles, and on a related note, that’s why I agreed to become the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.
I’ve discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I’d become.
Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true!
It sounds really cliched, but just be true to who you are.
I shall be true to what I believe.
Be true to yourself, and, um, don’t worry about some large companies’ quarterly profit index.
The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn’t that rad to watch.
What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it also can be the worst advertising.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
I’ve learned that even just as an individual, regardless of who I am, and regardless of who anyone is, to really be true to yourself and your own self expression and really use your voice for that.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
Before you have a baby, friends tell you ‘sleep now,’ and you laugh because you don’t think that all those stories could be true. But they are.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it’s always worth taking a careful second look.
People tend to see all black congressmen as liberals with an urban twist: They’re all for gun control and against the death penalty. It’s not true, and it shouldn’t be true.
To be able to be a good actress and portray other people’s stories, you have to be true to yourself.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I’d rather that the stories weren’t true, but they all happen to be true.
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You just have to be true to yourself and do what you love to do.
For every Tesla or Uber, there’s a Valeant Pharmaceuticals or Theranos – two story stocks that seduced an astounding array of prominent investors and supporters based on stories that did turn out to be too good to be true.
Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It’s the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.