I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.
An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.
As the sun shines I will make hay To keep failure at bay For there remaineth a pay For my honest toil each day.
I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
To put it bluntly, American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.
One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true,...
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.
Really, if I'm honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes - I'm a big comic-book fan.
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
