Labeling Quotes

• Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

  Gloria Steinem

  Enemy, Labels, Links

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• Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Lgbt Pride, People

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• Instead of labeling and discriminating against one or the other, we need to learn to blend our gifts and complement our geniuses.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Needs, Genius

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• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.

  Brit Marling

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Expectations, Labels

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Essence, People

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• Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Like You

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2012

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• Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported by it.

  Laozi

  Oneness, Perception, Awareness

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

  Octavia Spencer

  Reality, World, Realist

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• Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Giving, Drug

  Thomas Szasz's remarks at the 35th Anniversary and Human Rights Award Dinner of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, www.szasz.com. February 28, 2004.

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• Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Disease, Physicians

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• I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

  Boyd Rice

  Done

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• I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

  Ani DiFranco

  Moving, Thinking, Labels

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• I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

  Montgomery Clift

  Self, Want, Pansies

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Doe, Whistleblowers

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Fiber, Injury

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• There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

  Jay Roach

  War, Two, Upset

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through which people share their thoughts and intentions and thereby acquire the knowledge, customs, and values of those around them."

  Steven Pinker

  People, Doe, Sake

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.283, Penguin

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• Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

  Boyd Holbrook

  Thinking, People, Negativity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't make sense intellectually, but that's because our intellect is always trying to come up with a logical, rational explanation for things. To do that, it puts labels on things. But once you label something, you've got twoness. You've got the label, and you've got what you're labeling. And there is only oneness in the universe, even though we artificially believe in twoness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Thinking, Oneness

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• As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  America, Justice, Firsts

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• Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Giving, Autism

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

  Richard Rohr

  Prayer, Eye, Judging

  "Richard Rohr on Praying like St. Francis". St. Anthony Messenger interview, www.franciscanmedia.org.

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• Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a dangerous debate over fundamental assumptions from breaking out in the open.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Fundamentals, Assumption, Debate

  Phillip E. Johnson (1998). “Reason in the Balance: The Case Against Naturalism in Science, Law & Education”, p.45, InterVarsity Press

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