Quotes About Identity

A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

We do indeed encounter new parts of ourselves by stripping away the veils of our slumber; we become aware of our essential character and are opened to capabilities beyond limits self-imposed through ignorance,

Then what do we call you?" another of the heat forms asked. "We are Rutan." "Our species need something a little more particular," the first heat form of the Time Lord said. "I think we'll call you Fred, for ease of reference.

You cannot really unconditionally love others when when you need to prove your own self worth

Each place its own psyche. Each sky its own blue.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like a bird, something like an angel." He laughed. "Something like that.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

And, unlike British and American women, we do not go around with a hatchet in our hand trying to chop the balls off every man we meet. Because we want—and need—our men to be men. Real men. Not macho assholes, not gorillas, men. Fathers in peace, lions in war.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

I showed her a plastic card that said I was with the Pentagon's Office of the Director of Intelligence which was true in an abstract sense; like Picasso's people with both eyes on the same side of their face.

Without being a cop, Sam Prichard wasn't really all that sure who he was.

that membership of a special club—whether it's a religion, a priesthood, an aristocracy or political movement—can drive people crazy to the point of believing themselves superior…" I turned to Pamela and added, "and with the right of life and death over entire races.

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

The truth is, all I really want is someone who will care about me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

A year earlier, I had described campaigns to reporters as "like an MRI for the soul—whoever you are, eventually people find out.

There are people that who want to be someone and there are people that want to do something.

We now enter the Twilight Zone of psychology. Hundreds of theories of personality exist, but no one has yet successfully identified, or even defined, what personality is (Hall and Lindzey, 1957). Thus, there exists a myriad of psychological tests that measure something, but no one seems to quite know what it is.

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.

law of Schrödinger's Whites, a brilliant conceit that I am not responsible for, in which Jews are white or non-white depending on the politics of the observer, in this context Krug's Jewishness enhances the story.

Jezza, Tezza, Mezza, Hezza, Quezza, Smezza, Sea Anemonezza and Dave: