I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.”
“Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that makes the reader wonder what he or she would do in the protagonist's place.”
“Identify the problem.”)
I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.”
“Identify the sequence of stages that leads to turning your dreams into reality”
“Identify the thing that is going to stop you and then stop it.”
“Identify what all the issues are & when you find them don't hide from them.”
“Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it!”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“Identify what it is about your reality that you wish to change.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“Identify who you are.
Understand who you are.
Appreciate who you are.
Embrace who you are.
Celebrate who you are.
Enjoy who you are.
Respect who you are.
Love who you are.”
“Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.”
“Identify with failures in others by listing yours.”
“Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs by sheer will to extend his life. "Fly...Rider, with great speed. Don't read m-message. Then they can't tor-torture...it from you. If captured, shred it and toss it to the winds." Then, because his voice had grown so faint, she had to lean very close to hear his final words. "Beware the shadow man." A cold tremor ran through Karigan's body. "I'll do my best," she told him.”
Source: Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider
“Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Identify your life mission and gift”
“Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.”
“Identify your personal limits and then push past them. Then set new barriers, and repeat the process, again and again and again.”
“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions”
“Identify your Radar – it’s your brain functioning optimally; not a vague intuition or cosmic sixth sense.
Train your Radar in key areas like: evaluating people, personal safety, healthy relationships, physical and mental well-being, money and credit cards, career choice, how to get organized.
Meet the Radar Jammers. They have the power to turn down or turn off our clear thinking Radars.
Some are well known: alcohol and drugs, peer pressure, infatuation, sleep deprivation.
Others are surprising: showing off, fake complexity, anger, unthinking religions, the need for speed, dangerous personality disorders, and even fast food!
Learn reasonable approaches and specific techniques to deal with them all.”
“Identify your views and feelings are effective and that you should not beat yourself up for owning them.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Identify your whys to motivation. One positive thought is the key to inspiration. Tweak a bit to approach the target. Don't lose your mind, Just one step will work up the rest!”
“Identify yourself,” Colleen demanded. “I’ve got a bat and I will beat the living shit out of you if you so much as blink. I’ve got a black belt,” she lied frantically, “and…and…a gun. A big one.” - Colleen O’Brien”
“Identifying and nurturing the underachieving student’s skills is pivotal for long-term success.”
“Identifying as a Pagan, feminist, Witch, and anarchist is possibly a way to alarm great segments of the general public, but at least it keeps me from sinking into a boring and respectable middle age.”
“Identifying as a woman of colour has been crucial in my understanding of structural politics in society. But this focus hasn't changed the plantation structure, the violence against black bodies and women's bodies. When we stake our primary claim on a racial identity, that identity can be used against us, to keep us in our category, to keep us divided. When we are so divided, it appears that it is impossible to address inequality, because it looks as though we're calling for "sameness" not equality. Which is, of course, not what we want at all.”
Source: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
“Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.”
“Identifying as neurodivergent isn't just another label; it's also an identity, it's a reclamation, it's a song. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are reclaiming our differences that society calls abnormal or wrong. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are challenging you to consider what 'normal' actually means and perhaps even realize that maybe our normal isn't your normal. When we call ourselves neurodivergent, we are rejecting the concept of disorders.”
Source: We're All Neurodiverse
“Identifying body language changes connected with the conversation in hand gives us insights into their thoughts and emotions.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“Identifying, developing, and connecting on these points of reference will provide you with a rich resource of information from which to engage in stimulating conversations and connect on meaningful levels.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Identifying evolutionary origins of nefarious behavior in no way justifies or excuses it.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Identifying myself as a fishing pole will not catch any fish.”
“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
Source: Twisted Perfection
“Identifying the covert factors hindering an underachieving person’s success is the first step to helping them breaking free from the chains of underachievement and paving the way for a brighter future.”
“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time.”
Source: The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law
“Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children”
“Identifying who began something like this is like picking out the stone that began an avalanche. It began somewhere, true enough [...] but once it well and truly begins, we are all just stones moving together. One stone rolling down a mountain changes nothing unless others move with it.”
Source: Terra Nova
“Identifying with someone who isn't you is empathy. Identifying as someone who isn't you is identity theft.”
Source: Born in the Right Body: Gender Identity Ideology From a Medical and Feminist Perspective
“Identifying Your Dream
Some people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes a specific shape.”
Source: Make Your Creative Dreams Real: A Plan for Procrastinators, Perfectionists, Busy People, and People Who Would Really Rather Sleep All Day
“Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?”
“Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to another.
We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair.
At that point, living well means finding a new model that better suits us for a new moment.”
“Identity alteration is a more general term for the objective behaviors that are manifestations of the assumption of different identities (Steinberg, 1993). It includes not only behaving like a different person but also disremembered behaviors, finding possessions for which one cannot account, hearing voices and carrying on internal or written dialogues between dissociated ego states, spontaneous age regressions to traumatic events, and referring to oneself as "we." Overtly behaving as if one were a different person does not appear to be typical of the clinical presentation of DID...”
“Identity Alteration—Objective behavior indicating the assumption of different identities, much more distinct than different roles.”
“Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.”
“Identity Confusion in Patients With DID
We can locate the identity confusion characteristic of DID in the middle-to-upper range of severity. Identity confusion is a significant factor in DID, when an environment created and sustained by one personality conflicts with the expectations of another personality who is not prepared to function in this alternate environment.”
Source: Handbook for the Assessment of Dissociation: A Clinical Guide
“Identity confusion... is as if somebody lost their mental road map and has no appreciation of who they are or what is going on in their life. They may know they know but become blustered or baffled as to why they don't. The information is inaccessible and likely would remind a person about things that have gone on in their life that are simply unacceptable and unknowable, in a given moment, because of the emotional gravity involved.”
Source: Intensive Psychotherapy for Persistent Dissociative Processes: The Fear of Feeling Real
“Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13”
Source: Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders
“Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.”
“Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It's a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.”
“Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.”
“Identity in the age of AI isn't about what we produce—machines will match and exceed our output. It's about what we mean, how we relate, and why we choose.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.”