Being Truthful

Eye contact made people

Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren’t. Gabrielle Zevin

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to … Read more

In a decaying society,

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. Ernst Fischer

One must be truthful

One must be truthful with oneself about one’s own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. Emile Chartier

I think what saved

I think what saved me is me being honest. I think I somewhow had the courage to do something and say something that I knew would possibly end my career. Instead of making business more important I made my soul and my life more important. And I think by being truthful, and being honest, that … Read more

I will say, with

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful. Elie Wiesel

To be credible we

To be credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

To be persuasive we

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

American traditions and the

American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. … Read more

I mean, sometimes… a

I mean, sometimes… a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don’t deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don’t even notice that that’s the thing. Eddie Izzard