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.
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.
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.
