Faces Quote by Erving Goffman Download Open image “Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.” — Erving Goffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faces Mask May Presentation Self Your face
You can show more of the reality of yourself instead of hiding behind a mask for fear of revealing too much — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be… — J Balvin Copy Share Image
There is something behind those masks. You're just afraid to face it. You're not running away from who you are. You're running away from… — Smallville Copy Share Image
You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Those who have seen your face. Draw back in fear I am the mask you wear. — Nightwish Copy Share Image
The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Morning and lunchtime are times when anyone can appear alone almost anywhere without this giving evidence of how the person is faring in the… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
So," I said. "Seems you're going to be stuck with me for a while." He smiled. A real smile that lit up his whole… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to… — Muddy Waters Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image