Identity Creation Quotes

When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don't actually believe makes sense. We can get them to do things that they don't think they can do.

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them.

To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

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

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

To be a movie star, you have to invent yourself.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

The image, like the voice, came in stages. I never sat down with anyone and said, 'Let's design an image.'

When I got the name 'The Franchise,' the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.

Whether you're a woman, a transwoman, a person of color, I feel like Instagram is really important for the creation and framing of the self.

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

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.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

Through technology and social media, we're able to create an identity online that shows people the face that we want them to see and rather than who they really are.

If you embrace a project that will require time and patience, then you need something to work on. So the first step of the project is to create an identity. If you don't have an identity, then today you want this player and tomorrow another one. If you have an idea and a shape, then this is how you develop an identity.

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a new culture, and it becomes something that people just - a lot of times they'll say, "I couldn't live without it. I just have to be there."

I didn't want to be the next version of any player - I wanted to establish my own name.

Fashion is one of those places in which, when you're wearing something that feels like a representation of you, it does create, in a matter of speaking, a space for you to exist. Even if it's just in a two-inch radius of where you are. It's a walking, personalized area in which you can live.

I feel if the Punjabi cinema is experimenting, I should also at least try and do roles which create a new identity with every film.