Identifying Quotes

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
Rita Rudner

Women, Men, Bad

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

Character, Playing, Trouble

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.
Ray Dalio

Humanity, Ego, Problem

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Roger Ebert

Experience, Car, Forget

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters

Politics, Wisdom, Game

Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.
Emilio Estevez

Yourself, Path, Soon

We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated.
Julian Assange

Forward, Personal, Secret

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

High, Quality, Ability

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
Lauren Graham

Funny, Beauty, Smart

Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
Bill James

Good, Society, Else

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.
Mike Johanns

Age, Business, Today

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre

Change, Human, Person

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
Stephen Bayley

Travel, Character, Else

I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.
Jim Cantalupo

Great, Needs, Wants

While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!
James Chanos

Bad, Short, Often

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.
Chester Brown

Thought, Wanted, Answer

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles J. Givens

Life, Success, Become

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

Different, Getting, Languages

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
Greil Marcus

Great, Movies, Born

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.
Glenn Hubbard

Different, Means, Valuing

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
Serge Schmemann

Evil, Longer, List

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.
Billy Tauzin

Time, Great, Sympathy

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

Equality, Everybody, Thinks

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
James M. Baldwin

Nature, Important, Soul

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans

Great, Medical, Human

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

Human, Law, America

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
Michael Ledeen

Training, Potential, Terrorist

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
Alex Lowe

Fear, Natural, Overcoming

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
Irving R. Kaufman

Someone, Special, Everyone

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.
Kurtwood Smith

Mind, Audience, Red

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