Identifying Quotes

• How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Breathing

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• When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.

  Josei Toda

  Inspirational, Sad, Past

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• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

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• Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Health, Unique

  Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

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• The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Tired, Evil, Easy

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• China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Change, Bullying, Power

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  Peter Murphy

  Beautiful, Ideas, Brain

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• It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

  Mark Lanegan

  Inspirational, Music, Names

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Quality, Ability, Discerning

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• Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

  Trevor Noah

  Views, Trying, Opinion

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Real, Character

  "How Emmanuel Carrère Reinvented Nonfiction" by Wyatt Mason, www.nytimes.com. March 2, 2017.

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• Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mistake, Men, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Practice, Psychology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

  Matt Bomer

  Jobs, Moving, Gay

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Mark Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

  Jared Diamond

  Focus, Important, Problem

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.457, Penguin

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• There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Robert Eastaway

  Education, Math, Government

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• People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.

  James Inhofe

  Law, America, People

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• The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong.

  Richard Harris

  Reality, Two, People

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• Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  "Toni Collette: Keeping Track Of Multiple Personalities". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males.

  Florence King

  Boys, Names, Males

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• If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

  Arno Gruen

  People, Anxiety, Identity

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• Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them.

  Robert E. Terwilliger

  Men, Identity, Way

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• Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

  Matt Bomer

  Thinking, People

  "Magic Mike's Matt Bomer Talks About Being Out as Gay: What Brought Him to Tears?" by Marc Malkin, www.eonline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

  Roger Ebert

  Wall, Character, Space

  Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.11, Crown Archetype

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