Top 1200 Group Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Along the way, about certain things, you realize, "I don't know anything about this." You think, "Is this going to sound ridiculous?" So I pestered more than a hundred different people over the course of the book. And when I finished the book I gave it to six or seven trusted readers, who are always the same, but I also gave it to a brother of mine who's a doctor and I asked him to read it, and he was very helpful. It's good to have a group of trusted readers. As my kids have grown up, they've joined this group.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort. However, it is never a group effort of vague fellow committee members, but of associated autocrats-a playwright, a producer, a director, a stage manager, designers, and, above all, actors. Each accommodates the others, and may overlap others in function when necessary. But each autocrat assumes distinct responsibilities and accepts them completely.

It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before.

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

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

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

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

When I started my career, I was faced with a challenge of making my own identity.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

I would rather be single than be someone's girlfriend because that's not my identity.

My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

Clarifying your identity helps you just talk to ladies.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

Feeling trapped in identity isn't just the purview of women and minorities.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.

Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.

What you collect is the ultimate impartation of who you are. It's the archive of your identity - it's what you leave behind.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of his audience but he's kind of reaching over his audience or behind his audience to black Americans, saying what have you got to lose? As in you might as well join me because the Democrats haven't done anything for you. But joining me means joining this group that already supports me.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

You should know, whether you live in the U.S. or in the U.K., that your identity has already been stolen.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

The identity of each band is what's important for me production-wise.

I really truly believe I found my identity with country music.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

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

I think identity issues have their place in the workplace, less so personal behaviors.

I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

When Star Wars became a hit and I had a chance to make the other movies, I had to figure out a way to bring Ben back, but a lot of the issues he had to deal with were carried by Yoda. In a sense, I combined Yoda with the spirit of Ben. I wanted Ben to have some kind of influence, but I didn't want it to be a direct influence where he could help Luke. So Ben has managed to keep his identity after he became one with the Force. One of the things he was doing on Tatooine besides watching over Luke was learning how to keep his identity after he became part of the Force.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.

I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er.

Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.