Identifying Quotes - Page 8

• Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them.

  John de Ruiter

  Believe, Heart, Special

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• By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Pain, Powerful, Long

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Art, Children, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.93, Open Road Media

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• You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive some monstrous female, but even if this were the most men-bashing movie ever made-let all us women get guns and kill men-it wouldn't even begin to make up for the 99% of all movies where the women are there to be caricatured as bimbos or to be skinned and decapitated. If men feel uncomfortable in the audience it is because they are identifying with the wrong character.

  Callie Khouri

  Character, Gun, Men

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• Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

  Daphne Koller

  Jobs, Hard Times, Skills

  "Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2012.

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• The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources.

  Susan RoAne

  Success Of Others, Investment, Share

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Singers, Might

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• We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

  Judy Grahn

  Color, Secret, Lavender

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• In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Ideas, Feelings

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• I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

  Louis C. K.

  People, Laughing, Way

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Confidence, Knowing, Goal

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• Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.

  Starhawk

  Feminist, Age, Identity

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• If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

  Reb Anderson

  Sex, Passion, Facts

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• People of every age group have connected strongly with the story [the March], identifying with different components of it. A sense of fairness and recognition of injustice seem to be hardwired into kids - I know it was for me, even as an elementary school kid - and I kept that in mind throughout the creation process.

  Nate Powell

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Dream, May, Helping

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• We have the ability to be the ocean. And access all that infinite possibility, understanding, knowledge, awareness. Or we can get caught up in identifying ourselves as being the droplet, which cannot disconnect us literally from the ocean but does disconnect us from the awareness of the ocean, which means that we isolate our point of observation to that of the droplet. That’s when we identify with being the image in the mirror.

  David Icke

  Ocean, Mean, Mirrors

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

  David Livermore

  Team, Diversity, Problem

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Ideas, Vision, Nuggets

  "Esperanza Spalding: Insubordinate by Nature". Interview with Alex Frank, pitchfork.com. March 8, 2016.

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• The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, America

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Thinking, Empathy, African American

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• [Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.

  Dar Williams

  Country, Reality, Cities

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Musically, some of the acts that I've really been identifying with are: Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Earth, Wind & Fire, in general music that seems to have a lot of romance to it and a certain glamorous idealism.

  St. Lucia

  Fire, Wind, Romance

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Long

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