Quotes About Labeling

People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It's comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It's just not as linear as that.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren't suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

Asked whether they would rather eat an organic or a commercially grown apple, most people prefer the "all natural" one. Even after being informed that the two apples taste the same, have identical nutritional value, and are equally healthful, a majority still prefer the organic fruit. Even the producers of beer have found that they can increase sales by putting "All Natural" or "No Preservatives" on the label.

I'm black—not African American. That's a term I don't like. I was born in America and I've never been to Africa. It's an absurd term. A term that Jesse Jackson crammed down the throats of the media. It's ridiculous.

That's what humans do. We label, categorize, measure, and dissect because it gives us the illusion of control.

When people aren't ready to hear a truth it is easier to label the discloser as insane to hide their own incapacity.

The only accidents I know of are incidents that have been subjected to a serious case of mislabeling

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

People did pigeonhole me.

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

You get pigeonholed. You accept it or you fight it. I've accepted it.

You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically.

Advocates of GMO labeling aren't seeking a warning label. We're simply asking for a factual, non-judgmental disclosure on the back of the package.

Rarely when you label a group as something does that whole group really fall into that category.

You do get labelled in the game, and that's why I enjoyed my time managing in the Championship. I'd back myself against most people in that division.