Top 1200 Personal Identity Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

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

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

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

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

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

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

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

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

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

My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

I don't care what the press is about a person that I'm working with. I care about how they come to work every day. I don't care who broke up with who or who is sleeping with who or who went out where. I don't care what you do with your personal life. It's when people take their personal lives into a space where it affects their performance at work, that's when I would stop taking someone seriously.

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

My identity is that of a Pakistani player. And nothing is more important than that for me.

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

Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

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

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

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.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change.

It is great filming in London. It's difficult, but it looks good. It has its own identity.

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

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

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

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.

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

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

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

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

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

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot predict: the changing light, weather, personal mood, and often just plain luck. Of course, you must have a starting point, so I establish some fixed points then improvise as I go. In many cases the locations seem to choose me.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

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

Kolkata does not look like a Delhi or Mumbai. The city has its identity.

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

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

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

There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there.

The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

When a country loses its identity, it no longer knows what it is or where it comes from and what its real worth is. So it dissolves.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

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

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

To be an effective leader, you must be trustworthy. If people don’t trust you, they won’t follow you. And if they won’t follow you, your organization won’t meet its goals. Sandy Allgeier explains that personal credibility comes down to a simple truth: It’s not about the type of person you are; it’s about the types of things you do. If you want to be a great leader, read The Personal Credibility Factor.