Jeff Bezos Quotes

Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

When you're not authentic to yourself, you're lying. You're going to get found out and you're going to slip up.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you.

I think the important thing is that I've never tried to be someone I'm not. People can read right through that.

At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I'm not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself.

I know who I am, and I know my story, and the things that I talk about are authentic and real, and I always say this: I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes, the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

I'm not going to be somebody I'm not.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

Stay consistent with your message and who you are.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

A mask tells us more than a face.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Leadership is much less about what you do, and much more about who you are.

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.