Quotes About Labeling

I was definitely aptly named.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Desgraciadamente, «posmoderno» es un término que sirve para cualquier cosa. Tengo la impresión de que hoy se aplica a todo lo que le gusta a quien lo utiliza. Por

That's nice! You have called me Eponine!

psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning.

She was using a psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning. She reframed what I perceived as neglect and labelled my concerns "overprotective.

It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted.

After George Floyd's murder, we had a conversation on our podcast where the underlying message was about being empathetic. We wanted people just to truly listen. We're not here to point fingers or label people as racists. I'm here to tell you our experiences and how we feel.

The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

I am an actor. It's very unfair when people categorise and term me as a television actor or film actor.

We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

If someone wants to do a carbon fee and someone else wants to do a cap on emissions or a renewable portfolio standard, we don't start labeling each other as more or less progressive.

People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.

Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

La forma que tiene la gente de reclamar para sí a un ser querido es ponerle un nombre que solo hacen servir ellas. Ponerle una etiqueta para apropiárselo.

There was a primitive power in naming someone. It gave you a handle on a person.

and you're welcome to whatever you put a name to." Thus entreated, the two gentlemen (Mr. Weevle especially) put names to so many things that in course of time they find it difficult to put a name to anything quite distinctly,