Identity Quotes

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

You cannot hide your true self forever.

I have my own identity as a player.

The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

People are hard-wired for tribal identity.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

I think that's Glassjaw's identity - the disconnect between what we think we are and what our fans think we're supposed to be. Whenever I read reviews of our stuff, I sense that.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.

The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.

Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.

I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

All of my unconscious fears were in my face about letting go of the current identity. A lot of the thoughts that came up were fear-based and false, so I had to work to let them go.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

All bands are in danger of losing their identity. Constantly.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.

The team takes on the identity of its top payers... I don't want to take anything away from the Capitals offensively.

I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.