Labels Quotes - Page 10

• Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

  Annie Lennox

  Respect, Attitude, Green

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• If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

  Eric Holder

  Want, Accepting, Call Me

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• It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

  Nina Gordon

  Magazines, Music Business

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• Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

  Garth Fagan

  Dance, Thinking, Creative

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• The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.

  Bill Walsh

  Teacher, Self, People

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.25, Penguin

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• And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Japan, Names

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• Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Sticks, Sometimes

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, World

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Atheist, Men, Hungry

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• What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Hate, Home

  "MUHAMMAD ALI DEFENDS HIS RELIGION Says Islam is for peace" by Lisa L. Colangelo, Clem Richardson, www.nydailynews.com. September 21, 2001.

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• There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspiring, Autism, Personality

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• The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

  Pink

  Badass, Bad Ass, Giving

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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• Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

  Drake

  Humble, Names, Want

  Song: Forever

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• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  George Meany

  Struggle, Pieces, Unions

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• Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

  John Ortberg

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease

  R. J. Reynolds

  Smoking, Warning, May

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Names

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Business, Profound, Competition

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• When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Crazy, Ego, Accepting

  "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

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• We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Judging, Desire

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• What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

  Clay Shirky

  Technology, Thinking, Data

  "Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags". shirky.com. Spring, 2005.

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• I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Eye, Light

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.134, Macmillan

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• To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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