A Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish - Novelist
November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Parker J. Palmer

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.

Jaron Lanier

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

Hugo Weaving

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

Michael King

Our national security requires us to be strong and fearless, but not at the cost of personal privacy.

Jeff Van Drew

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

John Updike

If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.

Elliott Abrams

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

Dennis F. Kinlaw

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Rollo May

It will appeal to girls who are confident and have a strong personal expression of style and identity in the way that they dress and what this says about themselves.

Agyness Deyn

I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.

Irvine Welsh

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Erving Goffman

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.

Djuna Barnes

Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values - and sticking to them - requires real guts.

Patrick Lencioni

Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.

Teju Cole

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