True Quotes

• We have to prove that digital manufacturing is inclusive. Then, the true narrative will emerge: Welcome, robots. You'll help us. But humans are still our future.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • True
  • Help
  • Future

• Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That's a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.

  

  David Fincher
  • People
  • Violence
  • Drama

• I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Good
  • She
  • Soul

• The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Live
  • Promise

• What I try to do often when I'm acting and what I like when I'm seeing good acting is how authentic it is. How true is this to what I know of the world that's been created for me? The ultimate test for me is, like, if I heard a clip of it on the radio, I'd like the audience not to know if I'm acting.

  

  Alex Karpovsky
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Believe
  • Long
  • True

• True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Die

• We must try to understand the true weight of law enforcement officers' burdens.

  

  Janet Reno
  • True
  • Law

• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  

  John Wooden
  • Good
  • Art
  • Help

• A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.

  

  Li Lu
  • True

• A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • True
  • Violence

• I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

  

  Democritus
  • True

• The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Purpose

• I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ultimate

• What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!

  

  Emil Cioran
  • True

• It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Possibilities
  • False
  • Tracks

• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Confidence
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

  

  Ben Quayle
  • Work
  • True
  • Perfect

• What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • May
  • Experience

• It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

  

  Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • People
  • Organization
  • Communication

• It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.

  

  Corey Stoll
  • People
  • Book
  • Challenge

• Be true to yourself and your values.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • True

• I think it's easier to be cynical. I think the temptation, often, among writers is to write about anything other than real, true, deep feelings.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Real
  • Deep
  • Temptation

• The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and docile listeners, but of impresarios and lion-tamers.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Men
  • Past
  • Lion

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