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.
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.
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.
