Quotes About Identity

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Brands are no longer the property of the companies, but of the consumers, and consumer power over brands is enormous.

How marvelous is Man! How proud the word rings—Man!

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

Can it beI am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky,looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters

We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.

What the devil's a king but a man, or a queen but a woman?

The years are long, and full of sharp, wearing days That wear out what we are and what we have been And change us into people we do not know, Living among strangers.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken. There is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Jesus expressed the same thought when he told us not to hide our light under a bushel, but to let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified." I cannot believe that it brings any glory to God when his children go around with hangdog expressions, being miserable, afraid to lift up their heads and "be somebody.

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

All your actions, feelings, behaviors—even your abilities—are always consistent with this self-image. In short, you will

The self-image can be changed.

The discovery of the real self can rescue a crumbling marriage, recreate a faltering career, and transform victims of "personality failure." On another plane, discovering your real self means the difference between freedom and the compulsions of conformity.

1. All your actions, feelings, behaviors—even your abilities—are always consistent with this self-image. In short, you will "act like" the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or willpower.

your mental picture of yourself "the strongest force within you.

Our aim is to find the real self, and to bring our mental images of ourselves more in line with the objects represented by our goals.

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the personality and the behavior.

When you change a man's face you almost invariably change his future. Change his physical image and nearly always you change the man—his personality, his behavior—and sometimes even his basic talents and abilities.

Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep