Individual Identity Quotes

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

The thing about me and Cesaro is that we both have strong individual personalities.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

I know I'm going to have to get beyond being George H.W. Bush's son and Barbara's son -- for which I'm really proud. And I'm going to get beyond being George W.'s brother for which I am extraordinarily proud as well, there's a lot of interest in finding the ways that we are different and all this. Well, the simple fact is that we're all on our own life's journey -- my brothers and sister are different than me.

We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".