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  • Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

    Thinking   People   Radio  
    "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.
  • A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

    Beauty   Decay   Arguing  
    1700 The Way of the World, act 1, sc.6.
  • Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.144, Library of America
  • The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  • It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

    Wise   Witty   Stupid  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
  • Prayer is a means of sharing the burden, which relieves pressure, as you tell your worries and concerns to someone who will listen and won't judge, no matter what you say. Praying is like handing the problem over to someone else as you talk it out. Then you can tune in for guidance and a different perspective that will exude heartfelt energy. When you pray, you are exposing your real self and extending sincere, loving energy to yourself. It doesn't matter if your words are fancy or plain, and there is no way to do it right or wrong. Prayer is about opening your heart and being sincere.

    Prayer   Real   Mean  
  • My artistic goal was to write something that's one hundred percent real and true to me and to this world. I tried to touch on truths that really connect with people from every avenue of life. Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them. Honestly, I don't have any agenda other than being sincere, real, and passionate about these songs and the music I make.

    Song   Real   Writing  
  • I'm being sincere and I'm being human. I'm making mistakes or I'm doing things correctly, but I'm being human regardless. I'm talking about my pain and my joy, and I'm not saying it with words but mainly with colors and shapes. That's what I tried to do with the utmost sincerity and humility of a child.

    Children   Pain   Mistake  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.

    Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.15, Delphi Classics
  • Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

    Integrity   Keys   People  
  • I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

    Character   Doubt   Shade  
  • You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.

    Rap   Mean   Expression  
  • Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  • If businesses are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public and regain the trust that they have lost, they should worry a lot more about what they stand for and entrust those with expertise in communication a much freer rein to express this in ways that people might recognise as being sincere and sympathetic, rather than stilted and formulaic.

  • The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

    Men   Law   One Day  
    Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218
  • Leigh [Bowery] affected a posh English voice and elongated his vowels, and you never knew if he was being sincere or mocking you. If I ever commented on one of his outfits he would snip, "Oh, thank you, Mr. Boy George. I do value your opinion." And then he would spin and make some ridiculous noise and mince off.

    Boys   Voice   Vowels  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

    "Collected Poems". Book by Herbert Read, 1926.
  • The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were.

    Wise   Reality   Men  
  • Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  • It's too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new fonts. 'Great party Arj. Best party ever.' What a jerk! How do you know he wasn't being sincere, Arj? Because he wrote it in Sarcastica! If he had enjoyed himself, he would have used Good Times Roman.

  • Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

  • I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

    Might   Ugh   Sincere  
  • One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

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