Identity Quotes

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

Without style, there can be no identity.

Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Self is a construct, a feeling, an identity that is internal and can neither be given nor taken away by others. We develop and nurture that identity by embracing inter-dependence.

I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry for so many years.

Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.

If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

Your retirement identity is of a successful person who creatively and efficiently manages your money and lifestyle to adapt to the ever changing economic and personal conditions of our time.

I want an identity outside of my work.

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.

Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure it has to be tested, redefined, managed and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear.

I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.

Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.

I always put my identity at the forefront of my music.

Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.