“Remember, nothing in life comes labeled, YOU are the labeler.”

— Steve Maraboli

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 74

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1975

Steven Barnes (1952) American writer and author

Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 16 “Warrior” (p. 239)

“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”

Martina Navrátilová (1956) American-Czech tennis player

Source: Queer Notions, A Fabulous Collection of Gay and Lesbian Wit and Wisdom, 1996, p. 18.

“Name calling and labeling does nothing but lower your own level of discourse, when you have no other facts to present, which is why alarmists often resort to name calling and labeling.”

Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist

Quote of the week #8 – Monbiot: "looks like I’ve boobed" http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/17/quote-of-the-week-8-monbiot-looks-like-ive-boobed/, wattsupwiththat.com, May 17, 2009.
2009

“If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

[1991Mar11.230002.27271@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991

“What is my identity?"
"Nothing," said the Master.
"You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple.
"Nothing that can be labeled.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

said the Master.
Source: One Minute Nonsense (1992), p. 109

“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“Once you label me you negate me.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

As attributed in Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Vol. 2 (1976) by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33; no earlier incidents have been located.
Variants:
When you label me, you negate me.
As attributed in Inner Joy (1985) by Kory Bloomfield, p 169
Disputed
Variant: What labels me, negates me.

“Roger: Oh! I think just having the opportunity to be on yet another major label again after being on Capitol in the late '90s and then going to an indie label and coming back.. and now we're on Warner Brothers. Just having those kind of oppurtunities is pretty awesome. Because there are bands that struggle their whole entire life time to just like you know.. "oh, we just want to be on the radio - we want to be on a major label. That's all we really want."”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

We've had the chance to do that twice. I think that's pretty amazing.

“Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.”

Barry Lyga (1971) American writer

Source: Game

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