Theme 71: Honesty

Dishonesty shuts that inner door, and when inner door shuts then outer doors shut too

my story made them open about their story

Connection is going to overrule all kinds of ideas.

That's how we connect, we find out something about the other.

and this is the part of honesty; you have to give something up, and when you do, most of the time, people give something back.

Honesty's got to do with giving something up about yourself

If you lose that contact with honesty, you lose the whole connection to your image

Are you filling your life with the stuff that makes your soul sing?!?!

You don’t have to live a life where you’re responding and reacting to other people’s toxicity.

Your existence is a miracle in and of itself, and what you do with that is your choice. You get to call the shots.

Be your own boss. Be unbossed and unbothered.

If you can't talk about your successes, then who will?

Creo que las personas se pueden diferenciar en dos: las que hacen las cosas y las que se quedan con las ganas de hacerlas.

A society is only as good as its active citizenship.

We are actually living on the cusp, if we choose it, of an extraordinary time.

Generosity is not a substitute for justice. It is not the same thing as justice.

When the winners of our age takeover social change and the entrepreneurial class becomes in charge of it, they show up on crime scenes with the engineer mentality and they try to strip away blame and the very idea of justice from the improvement of our society.

There are two kinds of social problems — engine problems and crime scene problems.

Rich and powerful people in our time really do want to help, but they have certain requirements for how they want to feel in their helping. They want to feel consulted, useful, and not blamed.

My whole book [Winners Take All] is about rich people trying to change the world while making sure their world doesn't change.

In extraordinary inequality, you end up with this dual psychology of 'I want to help' and 'I can't afford to not remain at the top of this heap.

In New York, it is punishing to be in the middle.

We live in a time of extraordinary inequality. Extreme inequality creates a dual psychology.

In writing, if you are telling people things that they already know, that's not good. If you are telling people things they've never though of before or have no relation to their reality, that's also not good. Ideally, you want to tell people things that they've vaguely sensed and you want to elevate that to a level of being out there.

How do we absolutely defend the values of equality, pluralism, and openness while seeking to be a movement of persuasion rather than self-satisfaction?

I don't think the 'woke' are going to be very safe if we just circle the wagons of the woke.

Is there space among the woke for the still waking?

There are millions of people who are still undecided on whether they're down with the new America or not.

An America that is open, plural, gender equal, tolerant, and brings the whole world in — that's the mega force.

I'm still in many rooms that are old and problematic, but I'm also in a lot of room that are radically new.

We can't afford to lose sight of the extraordinary thing we're trying to do and the way in which we're actually doing it.

We have to be mindful of the bigger arc of history.

America is on track to basically become a subset of humanity.

We, [America], are actually trying to do something incredibly hard right now on a 50 to 100 year scale — which is to become a country without a majority.

How do we build an America in which being a little darker is not a presumption of guilt of foreignness, but in which we're also not joyless and unable to deal with [...] recognizing each other's differences?

Those of us who are from more than one place can sometimes be defensive in a way that's uncharitable and misses opportunities.

If you can’t talk about your successes, who will?

Learn to be proud of your successes. Sometimes it can feel awkward and embarrassing but I think it’s really important that if you feel like you are doing things well, that you can say it.

Never ever take silence as a no.

Make something with love.

"These images are important because they say something about how I weight visual stuff. They say something about what becomes your instinctive preference for just about anything in your creative work."

Being aware as a creative of who you are, why you do something, and why people should come work with, is essentially important.

Everything comes back to identity. Who are we? We can't help that.

Uma coisa que o palhaço e a palhaça também fazem muito é rir de si mesmos e nunca do outro.

Esse não gostar faz a agente olhar de um jeito tão bonito pra esse defeito.

Se você não for honesto de botar teus erros pra fora, vai acabar sendo desonesto com o público.

Está tudo bem estar errado, está tudo bem fracassar.

A primeira honestidade do palhaço é com ele mesmo.

A gente fala que o palhaço é você sem casca.

Por isso que é tão importante essa auto aceitação, entendimento, pra gente rir da gente e depois poder causar riso no mundo.

Os palhaços ampliam o riso da terra.

Honesty makes us happier and healthier, even if it means shedding some tears.

We should be tapping into what makes us most vulnerable. We should be tapping in to our emotional honesty and whether that comes through our words or through our tears, that's okay. We can see that as strength.

I work in a space that allows that kind of emotional honesty to happen.

Discover the spaces where honesty thrives for you. Maybe it's a car, maybe it's in nature. Maybe there's a place where you feel safe to be honest.

My relationship with those that I've lost are still continuing to grow with time. And I can see them in different ways.

Lead with curiosity.

The things I treasure, I grow.

Consequences teach you what to treasure.

The things we run from—the things that require the most courage—are often the things that are the least selfish.

It is selfish not to be honest.

Start being more honest with yourself.

How comfortable would you feel being honest about your creative pursuit outside the workplace? Discussing your true ambitions outside your day job?

Art can help us heal and open us up to honesty in profound ways.

As a photographer or a content creator we have the responsibility to capture our most honest version of the truth.

The pressures of society has a tendency to socialize us out of our obsessions. We learn to value practicality over creativity, competition over collaboration, money over time, and fear over courage.

Většina lidí bývá do 55 naštvaná na svoje rodiče.

If you want to practice honesty, then it’s wise to remember the truth is not just a portrait but a landscape.

Fear isolates us; bravery connects us.

Bravery: it means accepting responsibility for the impact of our actions and the weight of our words.

Neupřímnost nenabírá nejčastěji podobu lhaní, ale zatajování nebo předstírání.

Honesty is an offensive policy.

When you lie in your relationships, those relationships become temporary.

When you live honestly, when you understand where you come from, when you understand who you are, when you are living your life with your passion, and the various purposes that may find yourself in in life, when you are living in that authentic way, you’re giving people the best version of yourself – always.

What if journalists covered controversial issues differently based on how humans actually behave when they are polarized and suspicious.

My driving question was, "How can I serve my community through journalism?"

I started to think a lot about how the process of making art there was much different. I not only had limited means, which aided creativity, but I was also free from a lot of pressures that our society can put on people in terms of what they're making, or whether or not they're getting paid for it. I was able to find this different type of freedom on the inside—freedom from pressures to have 'things,' to want a 'nice car,' or these impulses that are created artificially in our brains and need to be exercised.

I was suddenly making art not because I had the privilege to do it...it was an attempt to 'salvage' these years. When you get a long prison sentence when you're 20, there's people telling you 'oh you're going to lose the best years of your life.' And I was determined not to feel like that at the end of the sentence, that I hadn't lost these years, but instead actually gained something.

Lies do not cooperate. They don't work together. They don't share information. They are selfish.

It's becoming easier and easier to fall down a rabbit hole of lies then it is to create a mountain of truth.

We encounter more lies from each other on a daily basis than we encounter truth. It's easy to lie.

What we choose to create is as impactful as why we choose to create it.

If being honest was easy we would do it all the time, but it is not easy. As creatives, we have a choice to make. We have a superpower that other industries do not have. We have a superpower that allows us to create experiences and solve problems in a unique way that other people are baffled by. We can accomplish elegant sustainable solutions to gigantic problems if we work from that mindset.

It's becoming easier and easier to fall down a rabbit hole of lies than to create a mountain of truth.