Who We Are Quotes - Page 28

• Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

  John Daishin Buksbazen

  Weather, Feelings, World

  John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

  Hope Solo

  Jobs, Taken, Loss

  "Interview with Hope Solo, USWNT and St Louis Athletica Goalkeeper". Interview with L.E. Eisenmenger, sportslens.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

  Hope Solo

  Struggle, Reality, Should

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• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Fashion, Memories, Past

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• Buddhism is the study of changing who we are, modifying or perhaps totally restructuring ourselves as perceivers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Study

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• You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Mean, Mexican

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• Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

  W. H. Auden

  Differences, Age, Twenties

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• Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Juice, Littles

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

  Dan Ariely

  Ideas, Two, People

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• We don't have to apologize for who we are

  Pauline Marois

  Apologizing

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• We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

  Jo Nesbo

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• ...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

  Holly Smale

  Events, Stories, Happens

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• True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Home, Giving, And Love

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• I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

  August Wilson

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

  August Wilson

  Thinking, Years, Land

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• If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

  Eduardo Galeano

  Wine, Made, Grapes

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• Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see ourselves in a cultural and moral landscape that is disturbingly familiar, yet entirely new. As though granted a new beginning, Marcus renames the creatures of our world, questions who we are and who, as men and women, we might be. Notable American Women is a wonder book, pleasurable and provocative.

  Maureen Howard

  Moving, Book, New Beginnings

  "Notable American Women". Book by Ben Marcuso, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. March 19, 2002.

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• There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

  Rahul Dravid

  Games, People, Fans

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• In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

  Antonio Damasio

  Simple, Self, Brain

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Reality, Force, Sooner Or Later

  "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.

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• Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent, they tell us who we are and who we should be.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Important, Normalcy, Sexuality

  "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.

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• Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

  Tara Moss

  Sex, Needs, Enjoy

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• It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.

  Keith Boykin

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Identity

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Courses

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Street Boys”, p.122, Ballantine Books

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