If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn - Charlie Parker
I don't seek absolution. I can only try to resist future temptations to abandon principle for expediency - John McCain, Time, 08/09/08
I believe that authenticity is a route to clarity that can help us through confusion and towards our own evolution - Neil Crofts
I am not so hot on the topic of authenticity any more...it's just about impossible to apply that term to a company, because a company doesn't have an innerness that can accord with its outerness - David Weinberger, http://www.hyperorg.com/backissues/joho-aug18-09.html#cluetrain
I am completely certain that we are in the middle of a shift in world view such as has not been seen since the renaissance. In years to come we will look back on the first ten years of this century as a key turning point. The turning point from a world view motivated by fear to one motivated by love, from a world view where diversity shifts from being tolerated (at best) to being fully embraced. From a world view based on rigid hierarchies to one based in dynamic, evolving authentic leadership and community. - Neil Crofts
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. --
Don't subcontract your soul - Anonymous
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind - Dr Seuss
Authenticity is cropping up all over the place and is seen as a core trend by many trend spotters and futurists.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do - Andrew Carnegie