Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
Thomas J. Watson
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If you have depression and chronic pain, it's important to figure out what came first. Chronic pain sufferers often get a stigma if we can't find a structural reason for the pain.
Verle Valentine
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Laurence J. Peter
President Lincoln was a truly great, great leader. It would do a lot to decrease the stigma of a disability, and to highlight the abilities of people who have ataxia, if he could be that great and have this.
Laura Ranum
A lot of folks keep it hidden because they're afraid their employer will hear about it. We've got to break this stigma that pain is a weakness and [an excuse] that is used to get out of things.
Wayne Hochwarter
We have a real stigma with mental health issues, with asking for help if we're getting depressed. That's true of the general population period, and it may be more true of someone who does farming.
Sherry Nelson
Mental illness is an equal-opportunity illness. Every one of us is impacted by mental illness. One in five adults are dealing with this illness, and many are not seeking help because the stigma prevents that.
Margaret Larson
As time goes on and Las Vegas' worldwide reputation evolves ... the reputation of this being a gaming-only destination has less of a stigma.
Terry Jicinsky
We are going to isolate countries where these safety issues are a concern. The stigma that Africa carries leads people to fly non-African airlines and thereby deprive our airlines of opportunities to grow and expand.
Tshepo Peege
It's everyone's disease. Why is there such a stigma attached? It's no different than living with diabetes or cancer.
Larry Cook
If we can get rid of some of that stigma it would help parents/students become more interested in entering into such a great opportunity.
Melissa Killian
[The show is the] best thing that's ever happened to me, ... I'm not cursed with that stigma of being the American Idol.
Constantine Maroulis
Informed journalists can have a significant impact on public understanding of mental health issues, as they shape debate and trends with the words and pictures they convey, ... They influence their peers and stimulate discussion among the general public, and an informed public can reduce stigma and discrimination.
Rosalynn Carter
This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of the debt crisis and moratorium of 1987 followed by the restructuring of the mid 1990s; signaling the beginning of new stage that could eventually lead the credit to investment grade status within a few years.
Alberto Ramos
Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma.
Chevy Chase
I am excited about the impact I pray it has. I hope it is helpful and reveals the unnecessary suffering that goes on with the mentally ill, a broken and under funded system and the stigma that goes along with being mentally ill. I hope it helps people be less sensitive.
Lucy Winer
That's perhaps why October has this stigma.
James Stack
There is also a stigma about what affordable housing constitutes. They're high-quality projects that can be integrated in the neighborhood, and they service people we depend on: child-care workers, teachers, health-care workers.
Annu Mangat
Office romance just doesn't carry the same stigma it did a generation ago.
Mark Oldman
It can be difficult, ... If you had it since you were a kid, then you have had to deal with the pressure or stigma of being labeled slow or not committed, or simply having had your head up your (behind) or in the clouds.
George Mason
Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be single as well as happenstance.
Pepper Schwartz
There's a stigma. In Tulare County, it's presented like it's an illegal drug used by druggies. It's unfair. There's a legitimate use for this.
Rick Morse
It is not very well unattended. The stigma is not just the person who comes in ( experiencing ) shame and guilt. People who come in are so brave because they are battling so many things.
Nancy Kneeland
There are many 'little Katrina' disasters across the nation where the poor are ignored and are left out of society. Society deems poverty a stigma but those trapped in poverty don't have choices, ... They cannot move out of the whirlpool of poor education, poor employment opportunities and prevalence of crime in their neighborhoods.
Helen Prejean
It continues to fall from a high of about 900,000 new buyers to the segment in 1994 to about 500,000 in 2005. Additionally, the median age of the minivan buyer, currently 51, is increasing more rapidly than in other segments of the industry. Yet we know that in spite of their stigma, minivans are great vehicles. The fundamentals make total sense. There is no more efficient vehicle.
John Simmons
I don't see that the strike zone as different. I don't see that there's any stigma of American or National League as a player. The only real difference I see is that, in the American League, seven guys in the lineup will swing for homers. In the National, it's only about four. The rest of them will hit the other way or do whatever.
Mark Mulder
I'm really getting burned out on this hippie thing. The stigma of that is wrong; we're catering to all crowds that like live music.
Gina Lombardi
Having two different structures of relationships creates a stigma the New Jersey constitution does not allow.
David Buckel
I worry about the stigma -- especially in rural areas.
David Richard
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla
I've had to fight to be myself and to be respected. I'm proud to carry this stigma and call myself a lesbian. I don't boast about it or broadcast it, but I don't deny it. I've had to confront society and the Church, which says that homosexuals are da.
Chavela Vargas
The neighbors had been asking the mayor to destroy the structures to erase the stigma already attached to the community.
Carlos Abesamis
The stigma of child abuse is still apparent here. (It's) kind of like the road less traveled. Turns out it was the road all of us should have been taking all along.
Cindy Winstead
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.
August Wilson
We know that all our schools are trying very hard, ... To be put on a list -- it's just a stigma I'm not sure is helpful.
Catherine Sullivan
If we can get past the mental stigma of playing St. Norbert, then we have a chance athletically. We're not asking the kids to play perfect. We're asking them to play great, and they can do that.
Steve Bell
Informing young people about HIV is essential to stopping the spread of the disease. Engaging young people to share their experiences with HIV to help inform their peers is a powerful way to build understanding and breakdown the stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS.
Christina Hoff Sommers
We want people to know that Como's not going to be a dumping ground. The drugs left a stigma, but we're fighting that.
John Hudson
It's convenient to call it a minivan because of those sliding doors. But the U.S. is the only market in the world in which vans carry a negative stigma as 'soccer mom' vehicles, so we don't want it known as a minivan here.
Jeremy Barnes
Until recently, alcoholism among women was largely an invisible issue. The negative stigma of chemically-dependent women has kept them from treatment, intervention and prevention.
Carl Hickey
We tend to get pigeonholed. I come up against the idea that somehow I'm a first-time director. This is my third major motion picture, yet there's a little stigma attached to animation directors as we try to move into live action. We have a leg up over first-time directors, but that distinction is not often made when we try to cross over.
Vicky Jenson
The Donner family ended up getting the stigma basically because of the name. But of all the people, they were probably the least deserving of it.
Julie Schablitsky
The mindset is to provide a safe environment for the non-offending parent and the victim. There isn't the stigma of being at the emergency room or Children Services or the police station.
Terri Jacobs
There is a stigma in consulting Mental Health, ... Students don't like it.
Joanne Lewis
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
The restriction of not living within a certain distance of parks or whatever is really just about a stigma, a perceived need for supervising parolees. It will demonize people on parole and make it impossible for any of us to have a second chance, to re-enter society or lead a normal adult life.
Linda Evans
Twenty years ago there was a stigma about being laid off, now it's the norm.
Michael Worthington
There's a certain stigma attached to anybody who becomes a National Merit and 'fails.' It's not really from the administration, but personal.
Levi Rowland
I think you get this certain stigma that ?This guy can do a lot of things,? but you just want to be able to help the team, ... It?s fun because it?s something different. It breaks up the year a little bit when you go over there in offensive meetings or another meeting to learn a different position. It makes everything go by a little faster.
Mike Vrabel
When we first bought the company, there was the stigma attached to the UFC, ... At that time we were out trying to talk to venues. Venues weren't even interested in having the UFC there. MGM, Mandalay Bay, a few out in Atlantic City. We had to go in and get people interested in hosting UFC events.
Dana White
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
Nell Carter
There's still a widely held misconception that anything built in a factory is a trailer home. That's a stigma of prefab that we have to overcome.
Michael Sylvester
We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.
Tim Stevens
You can wind up with a life-long stigma. There really are no secrets in the world.
Bill Olson
It's quite unusual for people to contribute to mental illness organizations because, I think, there's still a stigma attached to the illness.
Peter Stuart
The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.
David Goodwin
You don't have to be a redneck to be a member of a redneck yacht club. It's a term that in the past has been a stigma or a stereotype, but songs like this and other various songs, even though they talk about the very things that people imagine rednecks doing or being, they're realizing that a redneck is more of a lifestyle than a person or a people.
Craig Morgan
We withdrew the project. It was going to be turned down. We didn't want that stigma.
William Nolan
We want to reach every community and every work place so that people will understand that stigma is just a piece of this puzzle that needs to go away.
Tipper Gore
It is, in a sense, a new school and isn't bound by the old stigma of the school.
Nancy Busbee
This is as good or better than any feature script that I've read in the past few years. I think there's less of a stigma now with television. It's all based on the material, and I think filmmakers and writers are less judgmental.
Brett Ratner
There is a stigma associated with incontinence, so many people never mention it to their doctors or seek treatment. In reality, fecal incontinence is a very common and often very treatable condition.
Bradley Davis
They didn't want that stigma attached to them.
Mary Hanley
Celebrities can have a positive influence on our life, with positive messages. They can be very helpful in terms of increasing awareness and decreasing stigma about many problems, including health problems, that might otherwise not get the attention they need.
Eric Hollander
Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer in a court of law. He also wants to avoid the stigma that O.J. Simpson got after his civil conviction.
Eric Dubin
The closer to the ground you can get with the message, the better it is heard. If we don't get over the stigma of HIV/AIDS soon, we will be in a situation where we have a generation that's no longer on this Earth.
Eric Whitaker
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