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  • Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

    Art   Children   Hero  
    Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.93, Open Road Media
  • It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

    Nature   Real   Animal  
  • Life, as a part, is interwoven with the life of the whole, not only present, but past and future, for while men come and go the folk lives on, continuous, eternal, providing its members perform their duty to it. Thus, in identifying himself with his folk man prolongs himself through the multiplicity of his ancestors and his descendants, and thereby attains immortality.

    Past   Men   Immortality  
  • 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

    Attitude   Men   Order  
    Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.55, Univ of California Press
  • It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them.

    Dream   May   Helping  
  • We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

  • The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.

    Fate   Men   Class  
    "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 23), 1947.
  • 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.

    Feminist   Age   Identity  
  • The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

  • If I had to fall in love with all the actresses I play with and live the situations I have to play, I would be lost ! I need to be solid and know who I really am to have fun in making something else. I noticed, while talking with other actors, that they often let ambiguity float. I don't like ambiguity, it's dangerous. I need distance. I also think that the result would prevent the audience from identifying to the characters. If you feel the things too strongly, you simply close the doors.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important. But if learning is to persist, managers and employees must also look inward. The need to reflect critically on their own behaviour, identify the ways they often inadvertently contribute to the organisation’s problems, and then change how they act.

    Errors   People   Focus  
    "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". hbr.org. June 1991.
  • We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

    Wall   Character   Space  
    Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.11, Crown Archetype
  • People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

    Source: newrepublic.com
  • Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite mind of the universe, as it is, without identifying with qualities

    Buddhism   Light   Self  
  • 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.

    Mean   Ducks   Drawing  
  • The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

    Source: www.artzip.org
  • Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open an animal and find a new species. Where did it come from? What effect does it have on its host? What is its next host? They don't know and they don't have time to find out, because there are too many other species waiting to be discovered and described.

  • A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.

  • I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.

    Thinking   Track   Needs  
  • Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.

    Brother   Rap   Men  
    Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.
  • Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Book   Character   People  
    "Double bluff". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2000.
  • I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

    Atheist   Book   Simple  
  • As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

    Husband   Father   Names  
    "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.
  • 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.

  • There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly.

    "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
  • 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.

    Song   Sound   Scholar  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.20, Dell
  • Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way.

    Different   Way   Path  
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