Identify Quotes
756 quotes by 657 authors
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And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.
— Sylvia Plath
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I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past…
— Jacques Lacan
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She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would…
— Neil Gaiman
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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could…
— Chris Bohjalian
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A vision of a desired future allows you to engage and identify immediately in your focus with an improved condition. It changes what you perceive…
— David Allen
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If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must…
— David Remnick
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I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself.…
— Alberto Giacometti
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We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has…
— Robert Graves
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Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in…
— William O. Douglas
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The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the…
— David M. Brown
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What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why…
— William Bennett
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The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
— Robert Adams
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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet…
— Bill Veeck
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You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it…
— Anthony Goldbloom
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The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.
— Paul Rand
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their…
— Faran Tahir
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