Identifying Quotes

• How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Breathing

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Change, Bullying, Power

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Tired, Evil, Easy

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• It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Inspirational, Music, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  Peter Murphy

  Beautiful, Ideas, Brain

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• People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Minorities, Asking

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, May, Helping

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• I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

  Van Morrison

  Caught, Certain, Caught Up

  Source: ritchieyorke.com

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• The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Mean, What Matters, Envisioning

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  "Toni Collette: Keeping Track Of Multiple Personalities". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice.

  Donald Trump

  America, Justice, Special

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.rawstory.com. August 31, 2016.

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• However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Book, Hard Work

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• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Moving, Gay

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Mark Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, People

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

  Roger Ebert

  Wall, Character, Space

  Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.11, Crown Archetype

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• Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

  Hyman Minsky

  Giving, Needs, Normal

  Hyman Minsky (2008). “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Part 3 - Economic Theory”, p.111, McGraw Hill Professional

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• This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.

  David Corn

  Law, Identity, Agents

  "A White House Smear" by David Corn, www.thenation.com. July 16, 2003.

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• Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas.

  Teresa Amabile

  Creativity, Successful, Opportunity

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