Identify Quotes

• When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Organization
  • Identify

• I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Danger
  • Identify
  • Play A Role

• I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Music
  • Job
  • My Life

• The manner in which life constructs itself must be dealing with some other principle which we've failed to identify.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Life
  • Principle
  • Identify

• Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

  

  Michael Fassbender
  • Important
  • Understand
  • Judging

• This is a society in which you are who you think you are. Nobody gives you your identity here, you have to reinvent yourself every day." He is right, I suspect, but I can't figure out how this is done. You just say what you are and everyone believes you? That seems like a confidence trick to me, and not one I think I can pull off. Still, somehow, invent myself I must. But how do I choose from identity options available all around me? I feel, once again, as I did when facing those ten brands of toothpaste - faint from excess, paralysed by choice.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Choice
  • Believes
  • Trick

• Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

  

  Bob Plager
  • Records
  • Identify
  • Hockey Players

• We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • People
  • Documentary
  • Identify

• I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

  

  Judy Parfitt
  • People
  • Identify
  • Viewing

• I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular project. My goal is always, 'When that theme comes on - even if you're not in the room - you hear it and say, 'Oh my show is starting, I gotta watch.'

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Particular
  • Starting
  • Connect

• The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Study
  • Spirit
  • Inner Life

• I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Character
  • Learning
  • Acting

• A simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Home
  • Die
  • Identify

• Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.

  

  Nicole Haislett
  • Limits
  • Repeat
  • Identify

• The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Pressure
  • Convictions
  • Counts

• I believe there are people out there that just have a warrior spirit, whether it's fighting or something, they've got to do it. It's hard to identify with me; it's just something I do.

  

  Evan Tanner
  • Fighting
  • I Believe
  • Warrior

• I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

  

  Neal Ascherson
  • Value
  • Identify
  • Myths

• The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Faith
  • Change
  • Patterns

• You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Idea
  • Challenged
  • Identify

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