Quotes About Labeling People

#1. Diagnosing and labeling people whose struggles are more environmental or learned than genetic or organic is often far more detrimental to healing and change than it is helpful.

Brene Brown

#2. Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

Joyce Meyer

#3. I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Nikki Reed

#4. A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.

Ina May Gaskin

#6. It was a reminder that the labeling of others is usually a silent process. Most people do not openly force us into roles, they merely suggest that we adopt them through their reactions to us, and hence surreptitiously prevent us from moving beyond whatever mold they have assigned us. 12. A

Alain De Botton

#7. Groups satisfy our brain's natural inclination to make sense of hordes of people we encounter and observe. This quality is so inherent that children intuitively understand the need to form groups without adults having to teach them.

Alexandra Robbins

#8. There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

#9. I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

Hugo Weaving

#10. Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

Boyd Holbrook

#11. Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Martina Navratilova

#12. I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Rick Allen

#13. It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

Ti West

#14. I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

Skeet Ulrich

#15. If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

Whoopi Goldberg

#16. It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking high on her list of skills.

Stacia Kane

#17. And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

Lauren DeStefano

#18. I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

Dennis Potter

#19. I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Dick Dale

#20. The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

James F. Byrnes

#21. Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#22. Pops smiled. "Son, the more people I meet, the less good I get at labeling them. That's a wisdom I hope you acquire.

Christopher Scotton

#23. The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between.

When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are.

Matthew Donnelly

#24. Instead of using therapy to try and reduce their fear and anger, people now celebrated these destructive emotions, labeling themselves as politically active rather than emotionally dysfunctional.

Gudjon Bergmann

#25. Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick sweaters, and buried them in the ground. All in this fathomlessly huge city Tokyo.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Accepting a man's hospitality is a token of good will, a declaration that you and your host stand on terms of a civilized relationship.

Ayn Rand

#27. Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

Ann Coulter

#28. Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Michael Harrington

#29. I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

Taylor Swift

#30. It is not the job of mathematicians ... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

Samuil Shatunovsky

#31. Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them.

Steven Pinker

#32. You Should take people as they are. Stop labeling them. You should get to know people before you start judging them. Get to know me before you
decide whether you like me or not.

Sarah Alderson