Quotes About Labeling

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

The division of labour means labelling and stamping men for life—some to splice ropes in factories, some to be foremen in a business, others to shove huge coal-baskets in a particular part of a mine; but none of them to have any idea of machinery as a whole, nor of business, nor of mines. And thereby they destroy the love of work and the capacity for invention that, at the beginning of modern industry, created the machinery on which we pride ourselves so much.

I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless.

More recently, western enthusiasts of shamanism (and anti-psychiatry) have reversed this process of labeling and asserted that people as schizophrenic, psychotic or epileptic are proto-shamans. Current trends in the study of shamanism now recognise the former position to be ethnocentric—that researchers have been judging shamanic behavior by western standards.

When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss.

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

I appreciate being known as 'best character' rather than as the 'best bad guy.'

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.     Bob

There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.

But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read the DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.

American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN

Many kids who would have been called eccentric, different, were suddenly labeled autistic." I

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.