Quotes About Labeling

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

Magnifying small offenses, mind reading by identifying subconscious thoughts even the offenders are unaware of, and labeling others as aggressors are all integral to the microaggression program but possibly harmful to mental health.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming"with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness"of that moment?

la mente siempre tratará de meterlo en una cajita y después ponerle una etiqueta.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming" with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness" of that moment? Naming something as bad causes an emotional contraction within you. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is suddenly available to you. The

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.

I don't think I'm 'the guy' in the sport of swimming, but people want to label me as 'the guy.'

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

Oddly enough, there's no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

It's delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category.

We will likely soon be living in a society that confuses disease with normal life if the panic and rush to judgement and labeling do not slow down a bit.

We will very likely soon be living in a society that confuses disease with normal life if the panic and rush to judgement and labeling do not slow down a bit.

People are tagged with other labels that point to the lowest-status group they belong to, as in "woman doctor" or "black writer," but never "white lawyer" or male senator". Any category that lowers our status relative to others' can be used to mark us; to be privileged is to go through life with the relative ease of being unmarked.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

Like nearly every other electoral subgroup in U.S. polling, 'Asian' is a label that masks the diversity among its peoples-perhaps even more than 'Hispanic' belies the significant variances between the cultures designated as such.