Identity Quotes - Page 34

• Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

  Tony Robbins

  Incredibles, Invisible, Gravity

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• American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Attitude, Jew, Bits

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• Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Views, Doubt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, Car, Decision

  "A New Way To Talk About Eating Animals". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

  Augustus Napier

  Children, Struggle, May

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• This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for itto change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

  Augustus Napier

  Men, Parent, Style

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• Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Self Esteem, Criticism, Threat

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• I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Life, Agency, Kind

  "Watch Rachel Dolezal’s Long, Unbelievably Incoherent". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.nationalreview.com. June 17, 2015.

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• We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

  Michel Foucault

  Helping Others, Two, Fusion

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.208, Routledge

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• A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Civilization, Roots

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• History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Mistake, Facts

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness." Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Reality, Essence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Islam has taken everything from its wretched believers. They are robbed from their identity and self pride. All they have now is Islam. That is why Islam for Muslims is more than just a religion. It is their identity. When you criticize Islam, they perceive it as an attack on their identity and cringe with pain. They take that not only as an insult but also as an assault on their person. Like a corned animal they become vicious and fight back with all their might - a fight of survival. That is why you see such a violent reaction to a few silly cartoons.

  Ali Sina

  Pain, Silly, Taken

  Source: myislam.dk

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• My pride and identity is wrapped up in my big trips. But I can't always be on one - I need to plan them and fund them, and I want some semblance of a normal life too.

  Andrew Skurka

  Pride, Needs, Want

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

  RuPaul

  Believe, People, Naked

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• Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

  Ralph Lauren

  Children, Car, Special

  "5 Questions with Ralph Lauren". Road & Track Interview, www.roadandtrack.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

  Theo James

  Seductive, Way, Quiet

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Memories, Mean, Problem

  Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.79, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.

  Shriram Sharma

  God, Reality, True Identity

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• The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Progress, Elements

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• The greatest power you have is your faith. F-A-I-T-H. And the word faith stands for Fantastic Adventures In Trusting Him. God will be there to fight all your battles, all you have to do is let him. Faith is very strong. Part of my life ministry is talking about God in terms of bringing back who I really am to the forefront of my identity.

  Gary Busey

  Strong, Adventure, Fighting

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Europe, Sea, Land

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• Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Men, Cognition

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.106, Penguin

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• Because I want to get a lot done, I can sometimes do that in the flesh. If I don't rest in the Lord, and enjoy him as I should, my action doesn't spring from my identity and enjoyment of Christ. When that happens, I end up getting the glory rather than Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Spring, Done

  Source: multiplymovement.wordpress.com

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• Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.

  Mia Hamm

  Sports, Voice, Goal

  "Discover A Real Mia Hamm: A Soccer Legend, An Advocate…". Celebrate Woman Interview, celebratewomantoday.com.

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