Top 307 Identification Quotes & Sayings

What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-identity expands beyond the ego, into the deeper psychic, then even into the Unborn and One Taste, the ego is simply taken up and subsumed in a grander identity. But the ego itself remains as the functional self in the gross realm, and it might even appropriately be intensified and made more powerful, simply because it is now plugged into the entire Kosmos.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

It's inconceivable that you don't have to show identification in order to vote or that that the identification doesn't have to be somewhat foolproof.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.

I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

The opposition believes that we should allow people to vote without even showing a shred of identification. Canadians disagree.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

I certainly wanted Hedwig's world to be one where identification and categories are fluid, changing, and confusing, as they are, really, in life.

After forming government in 2019, the BJP will undertake a nationwide identification of illegal infiltrators living in the country.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

I think that one not only has to make demands on the established group, but one also has to make demands on the outsider group. One has to make clear: if you want to leave, please do so. But if you want to stay here, a degree of accommodation to the Dutch outlook, Dutch manners, and a degree of identification with the Netherlands will be expected of you. There is no reason why there cannot be Dutch Turks or Dutch Moroccans. But one can expect from them a degree of identification, some change of their own social identity.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. Its a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. Its a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

So through identification you have pleasure and pain.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

Drop your identification with the illusion of separateness.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

I've always had a problem with over-identification with inanimate objects.

There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

My captaincy model was characterised by two distinctive pillars. Proper identification of talent and then ensuring the young finds play fearless cricket.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

If the idea of separate human races is a mistake to begin with, then monoracial forms of identification are fictitious and counterproductive.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Friendship is identification and difference

Music and television are turning into the equivalent of gymnastics and tennis: sports built entirely around the identification and training of prodigies.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling.

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.