Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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.

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.

What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

I don't have any sense of inhibition, so I'm able to lead my life with a lot of honesty.

I'm not afraid to say what I feel.

I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.