Quotes About Identifying Yourself

#1. We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

Sam Harris

#2. Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Albert Ellis

#3. There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

Daniel Radcliffe

#4. Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe.

Eric Butterworth

#5. Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

Jaggi Vasudev

#7. There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.

David Papineau

#8. The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.

Bryant McGill

#9. She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained.
"Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together.
"It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Ally Carter

#10. If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.

Scott Lively

#11. We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Mooji

#12. There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends,

Marshall McLuhan

#13. I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise.

Jeremy Hardy

#14. I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

Robertson Davies

#15. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Richard Eyre

#16. Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.

David Pocock

#17. I pause in garages, sheds and roofless barns touching things, identifying objects once secretly coveted.

Tom Gillaspy

#18. I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

V.S. Pritchett

#19. Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.

Sheldon Adelson

#20. Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Robert E. Terwilliger

#21. To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself
even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.

Melanie Joy

#22. After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to link women with earth, matter, and nature, while identifying males with sky, intellect, and transcendent spirit.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#24. Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.

Peter J. Carroll

#25. Maybe it doesn't matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process - in touching each item, in naming and identifying, in acknowledging the significance of a cardigan, a pair of children's boots. "It's

Christina Baker Kline

#26. Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.

Paul Polak

#27. A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.

Haley Pullos

#28. Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche.

Kim Garst

#29. Because identifying so completely with someone else can only happen by abandoning yourself, ... panics and retreats abruptly from these connections. Connect and cut.

Chris Kraus

#30. By skilfully training a hunting animal, by closely associating with it, by identifying with it, you might be allowed to experience all your vital, sincere desires, even your most bloodthirsty ones, in total innocence. You could be true to yourself.

Helen Macdonald

#31. Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

Emilio Estevez

#32. Work to connect yourself to the allness of life
instead of identifying with the smallness of it
and you'll awaken to a greatness already living within you that is no more bothered by the little things in life than a mountain is made miserable by the rain that falls upon it.

Guy Finley

#33. Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart.

Michael Josephson

#34. This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy.

Roger Waters

#35. Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

John Gardner

#36. Out-of-whack emotions are always a good beginning point for identifying beliefs that aren't really true, an easy red flag for our inquiry. Exaggerated emotions of anxiety or discouragement invite us to trace them back to the thoughts that are creating them.

Virginia H. Pearce

#37. I am the God of your father Abraham' (Genesis 26:24a). God is not just identifying himself: he is also reaffirming his commitment. As the Lord was with Abraham, so he will be with Isaac. As his power was seen in the life of Abraham, so it will also be seen in the life of Isaac.

Samuel Ngewa

#38. Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#39. Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

Abbi Glines

#40. Identifying someone by his, or her, outward appearance is often the first and most common error in the world

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Even the Son of God trod this path of martyrdom for the sins of all mankind, and all who suffer in a similar manner are simply following in his very steps, identifying with his sorrow over a lost world that he willingly died for.

Greg Gordon

#42. Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.

Balan Gothandaraman

#43. Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.

Bill James

#44. Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can't do that.

Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

#45. Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Charles J. Givens

#46. Identifying feminism as women's enemy only furthers the ends of a backlash against women's equality, simultaneously deflecting attention from the backlash's central role and recruiting women to attack their own cause. Some

Susan Faludi

#47. Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

Shahla Khan

#48. People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

James Inhofe

#49. Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

Chang-rae Lee

#50. Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Tom Peters

#51. Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

Ram Dass

#52. He most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

Dean Koontz

#53. I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.

Michael Eric Dyson

#54. Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

Lee L Jampolsky

#55. Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

Swami Vivekananda

#56. What I look for is identifying what the utility of a character is to the telling of the story overall. If I can identify that from reading the script, then I've got a clear idea of whether or not I think the character is worth playing.

Harrison Ford

#57. If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.

Stedman Graham

#58. In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Mike Johanns

#59. I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#60. I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't really have an accurate or comprehensive understanding of what it is - by proudly identifying as a feminist.

Julie Zeilinger