Identity Quotes - Page 29

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.

It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

People are created in God's image. Homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. It's an identity disorder.

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.