Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

I believe that my work has been well-received because it is authentic. All people really want are authenticity and truth.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

I just talk, and I say what I feel, and yet, I'm a nice guy.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.

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 himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

It's easier for me if I'm just open and transparent to a point.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I've actually found - especially doing my cabaret show - I'm connecting with people in a way I haven't connected with them. I've found that when you're open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you're being open and honest about. You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, "Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace." Then you're able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that's been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.

I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.