Daniel H. Pink Quotes

I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

Being honest with the public is how they respect you.

It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

Presidential politics has to be about truth telling and not pandering to the public.

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

I'm not a trash talker, that's not my thing. But if someone asks me, I'm going to say what I feel and what I think.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.

What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I don't hide or play stupid games.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.

I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.