Identifying Quotes

148 quotes by 139 authors

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback… — Lauren Graham
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what… — Ray Dalio
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. — Edsger Dijkstra
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA. — Roger Ebert
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a… — Roger Ebert
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or… — Umberto Eco
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
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… — Richard Eyre
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… — Sam Harris
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not… — Denis Leary
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character… — Jack Nicholson
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without… — Henri Nouwen
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. With… — Henry Paulson
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural… — Henry Paulson
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… — Tom Peters
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… — Daniel Radcliffe
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and… — Tariq Ramadan
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. — Rita Rudner
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means… — Marjane Satrapi
When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know,… — Juan Williams

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