Zitat des Tages über Aufrichtigkeit / Sincerity:
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.
I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.
So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
The secret of success is sincerity.
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
Sincerity is the way to heaven.
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence of one hundred years, with my only company being an illiterate guard who came twice a day with meals but who never spoke, I would still write - on coarse toilet paper in the dark if I could spare it.
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
Song Joong-ki is known for his sincerity and manners. He is younger than me, but I thought I learned many things from him.
In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.
I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that's the way I am.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.