Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in ‘the truth’ as a writer – more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, ‘I hit all my beats,’ ‘I accomplished my emotional honesty,’ or ‘I remembered my words,’ then that’s winning.
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can’t help responding to its honesty. It’s music that finds its way deep into your soul because it’s strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can’t pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
In all honesty plastic surgery these days goes hand-in-hand with beauty maintenance. It’s nothing new. Who I am, my body, I was not created from surgery, at all, whatsoever.
What I look for in a girl is honesty.
In all honesty, I didn’t love reading when I was a kid. I’d rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
Relationships feed on credibility, honesty, and consistency.
Comedy has so much to do with honesty, and women can be more open about their emotions.
I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
The problem is that even as you reveal the mysteries in your past, you are accumulating them in the present; complete honesty is the stuff of post-mortem, not autobiography.
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
As I prepared for the 2009 draft, I vividly remember meeting with a prospective agent that told me if I put in the work, I could be a good special teams player in the league for a little bit. On one hand, thanks for the honesty, I guess. But I thought I might be capable of more.
No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn’t apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict – because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
I like honesty and fair play.
I don’t think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Acting means nothing unless it’s truth. And honesty.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I’m wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that’s part of my worldview now.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.
James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.
I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it’s goofy comedy.
Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It’s a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
I don’t have any sense of inhibition, so I’m able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.
Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.
It doesn’t matter if there are 5,000 or 500 people in the crowd, if you can sing well and with absolute honesty, people will love you back.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding – concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.
I became Fantastic Negrito, and I felt like there was a rawness and an honesty in that music that I could relate to. That I was ready, finally, in my life to be that honest with myself.
As an actor, I feel my job is to perform with utmost honesty and then it is just the film’s fate. Of course, you want as many people as possible to watch your film, but there are too many factors and circumstances that come in between.
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here… We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
Washington’s entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate.
Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated – curated, contrived, edited. I think that’s a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
Honesty is very sexy.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It’s a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that’s needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that all they can do is break into song.
The most important gift you can give anyone is honesty, and that’s what I want to do.
I’m a big believer in honesty, and in this Instagram world, it’s important to remember that not everyone’s lives are perfect.
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
My parents, Arthur and Olwen, were honest, working-class people who raised my brother Arthur, sister June, and me with the values of that era – patriotism, stoicism, honesty, concern for your neighbours, and judging a man by what he did rather than what he had.
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it’s bold. It’s out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it’s hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
I believe family first. Blood is thicker than water. I grew up like that, and I want to continue to keep that goal in my heart. Just family first! Just honesty, integrity, and respect. All of that. I live by the code of those things. If you do that you’ll be fine.
Honesty is love.
I’m always going for truth and honesty.
I play on my honesty. Audience like me because they find me honest.
Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.
I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that’s just because I’m a Scorpio. Now I’m more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.
Party honesty is party expediency.
