Identity Quotes - Page 18

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.

Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity, deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.