721 Identity Quotes for You to Enjoy

While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves. Paul Kalanithi

Work Treat Doctors Every Our Crucible Identity Operation Brain Selves Diseases Substance While Manipulation Necessity

Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end. Paul Kalanithi

Life Worth Mind Values First Before Patient Living Worth Living Must Devastation Identity Operating Makes Understand His Brain End Reasonable

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character. Paul Ricoeur

Character Constructing Constructs Identity Makes Narrative His Story Her

I think people crave those meaningful situations, stuff about faith, identity, dilemmas of live paradoxes in our souls. It's going back to a time where lives were really defined by history, and also how you behave in the face of history. It's kind of interesting to go back to that simpler humanity, simpler but deeper. Pawel Pawlikowski

Faith Time History You Humanity People Face Live Think Back Our Dilemmas Defined Those Kind Paradoxes About Simpler Stuff Also Identity Souls How Go Were Behave Going Situations Where Crave Interesting Meaningful Really Deeper Lives

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. Penelope Lively

Past Sense Our Identity Where Need

Your own material is your identity, and I think that's what you need to stick to. Peter Frampton

You Own Think Identity Stick Material Your Need

Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status. Peter Landesman

Art Quality Sometimes Beauty Painting Difficult Mark Intrinsic Fraud Status Seems Abstraction Particular Identity Because Vulnerable Understand Understood Than Modern Modern Art Often Loved Social Less Painter Grasp

Having viewed Europe as an extension and projection of itself, France now finds Europe developing a mind and identity of its own which embraces France but is not controlled by France. Peter Mandelson

Projection Mind Own France Embraces Finds Having Developing Identity Itself Controlled Which Viewed Europe Now Extension

It is important that Manchester United keeps its identity. Their heritage is to produce and develop players, something that started with Sir Matt and continued with Sir Alex Ferguson. Peter Schmeichel

Important Heritage Something Develop Identity Continue Ferguson Matt Sir Manchester Manchester United Produce United Keeps Players Started Alex

Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American. Peter Thiel

Gay Every Most Identity Proud Am American Republican Unique Every American

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird. Petra Collins

World Problems Guess Definitely Crisis Had Knew Weird Know Identity Sort Because Always Hips Lot Very Just Where Wanted Grew Really Body Skinny Who Thighs