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Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor. -- Judith Butler
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing. -- Alex Lowe
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way. -- Abbi Glines
Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take. -- Jack Canfield
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. -- Starhawk
We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA. -- Roger Ebert
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. -- Matt Bomer
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. -- Charles J. Givens
After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important. -- Fred DeLuca
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. -- Ivan Chermayeff
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. -- Rita Rudner
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. -- Umberto Eco
I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are. -- Ray Dalio
While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys! -- James Chanos
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. -- Tariq Ramadan
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. -- Richard Eyre
People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America. -- James Inhofe
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. -- Henri Nouwen
In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today. -- Mike Johanns
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. -- Roger Ebert
There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. -- Tom Peters
Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. -- Marjane Satrapi
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it. -- Dan Jenkins
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines. -- Cassandra Clare
As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air. -- Virginia Euwer Wolff
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed. -- Margaret Atwood
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way. -- Peter York
Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. -- Michael Eric Dyson
There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. -- Criss Jami
Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle. -- Simon Heffer
I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red. -- Kurtwood Smith
If you need help identifying actionable analytics check out this post. -- Mark Twain
What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion -- Jennifer Senior
I'm identifying with the underdog. And it makes totally sense to me. -- Colin Munroe
Diligently practice identifying yourself as a limitless expression of an unliminted Universe. -- Eric Butterworth
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. -- Edsger Dijkstra
By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance. -- Desiderius Erasmus
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends, -- Marshall McLuhan
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance. -- Daniel Nathans
Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way. -- Sheldon Adelson
To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity. -- Glenn Hubbard
The key to success in any organization is identifying, developing, and empowering the right people. -- Craig Groeschel
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. -- Dean Koontz
Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body. -- Swami Vivekananda
Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna. -- Peter Kreeft
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure! -- Ramana Pemmaraju
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them. -- Michael Ledeen
I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things. -- Van Morrison
The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem! -- Jared Diamond
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. -- Robertson Davies
The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now. -- Stewart D. Friedman
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor. -- Fakeer Ishavardas
This is how you control your domestic population - by making people afraid and by identifying an enemy. -- Roger Waters
The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. -- John Mayer
I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants. -- Jim Cantalupo
Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. -- Robert E. Terwilliger
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? -- Chang-Rae Lee
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering. -- Ken Robinson
The reality was that Warner wasn't there. If there were two people or 20 people identifying him, they were wrong. -- Richard Harris
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last. -- Larry Brilliant
The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems. -- David Livermore
What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it. -- Esperanza Spalding
The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it. -- Allan Lokos
Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. -- Toni Collette
Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go -- Anthony de Mello
Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? -- Chang-Rae Lee
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself. -- Albert Ellis
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically. -- Gloria Steinem
The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better. -- Minor White
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'. -- Neal Ascherson
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. -- Arthur Koestler
It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them. -- Wilferd Peterson
Missionary work is an identifying feature of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Always has it been; ever shall it be. -- Thomas S. Monson
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue. -- Elizabeth Holmes
But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness. -- Gangaji
We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent. -- Mooji
A religion shapes the world of its believers by identifying questions that need answers and providing answers that people 'know' to be true. -- Jacob Neusner
Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need and project yourself as an "expert" within your niche. -- Kim Garst
Discipline yourself to start each day identifying something to be grateful about. The world opens to those who approach it with a grateful heart. -- Michael Josephson
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his -- Kenneth Burke
Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma. -- Emilio Estevez
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. -- Louis C. K.
Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get. -- Shirley Conran
The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom you share your resources. -- Susan RoAne
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent. -- Mooji
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others. -- Arno Gruen
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on. -- Lauren Graham
Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. -- Ram Dass
Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses. -- Ellis Paul Torrance
We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret. -- Judy Grahn
If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder. -- Scott Lively
Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. -- Nate Parker
There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive. -- Ayn Rand
Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. -- Shahla Khan
I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported. -- Roger Ross Williams
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others. -- Russell L. Ackoff
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. -- Clayton Christensen
You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come. -- James Redfield
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest. -- Stephen King
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing. -- Jack Nicholson
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. -- James Mark Baldwin
I just had to learn to look at it as a job, as opposed to identifying myself as a model and thinking of myself as a part of this industry. -- Daria Werbowy
Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush. -- Diana Gabaldon
Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love. -- Lee L Jampolsky
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves. -- Carmen Busquets
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it. -- Henri Matisse
You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people. -- Amy Ray
Men, however, shouldn't despair. They are excellent at identifying and imitating animal sounds, which would have been a significant advantage for the ancient hunter. Sadly, that's not quite as much use today. -- Barbara Pease
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy. -- Henry Paulson
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. -- Irving R. Kaufman
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness." -- Tariq Ramadan
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. -- K. Patricia Cross
I love many places to which I have no connection, but identifying an ancestor, or someone I think is an ancestor, has taken me to places I'd never have gone to otherwise. -- Jeremy Hardy
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. -- Irving R. Kaufman
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. -- Stephen Bayley

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