"Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out……" — Erving Goffman
"Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face."
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14 Quotes by Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman has 14 quotes on this site.
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to…
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful,…
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which…
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood…
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy…
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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even…
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And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for…
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am…
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his…
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only…
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