Core Identity Quotes

#1. I longed to stabilize my core identity and to withstand the pressure of other people's words, behaviors, moods, and perceptions. I wanted to be less easily thrown.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#2. One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

Maynard James Keenan

#3. Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Jack Kerouac

#4. Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

Deborah Tall

#5. It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Jim Butcher

#6. They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

Erich Fromm

#7. This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality. Being co-conscious with her, he explained, would stop me from experiencing the feeling of leaving my body or dissociating.

Suzie Burke

#8. I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

Lauren Slater

#9. To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.

Terry Eagleton

#10. I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

Wynton Marsalis

#11. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity ... one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

Vivian Amis

#13. The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We can speak any language we want at the dinner table, but English is the language of public discourse, or the marketplace and of the voting booth.

S.I. Hayakawa

#14. efforts and character of institutions like these can grow into a way of life when the people involved in them put them at the center of their cultural existence and identity and, as it were, fall into orbit around their rich moral core.

Yuval Levin

#15. Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Alexander The Great

#16. Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name among many. It is the name by which God knows us and the way He relates to us

Brennan Manning

#17. I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Gloria Steinem

#18. Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#19. No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Adyashanti

#20. You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Donny Osmond

#21. You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Peter J. Daniels

#22. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Vironika Tugaleva

#23. Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core.

Afnan Ahmad Mia

#24. We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
Without them, we are empty.

Daisy Whitney

#25. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Charles Duhigg

#26. For me, the essence of being a professional soldier was in being operational. It was the core of a soldier's identity and eligibility.

Thomas Rathsack

#27. CNN's problem goes to its very core and to the identity it's sought ever since the rise of Fox News, on its right: CNN is the channel for people who don't want to watch the other channels! That's a stupid strategy.

Alex Pareene