John C. Maxwell Quotes

When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand how much of yourself you're giving.

My whole act is confession.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.

Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

I'd rather tell you how I really feel.

What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

The art of life is to show your hand.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

My life is an open pamphlet.