“Identification then becomes a process of imaginative wish fulfillment which can be, and is, criticized from at least two points of view.… — John Fiske Copy Share Image
Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward,… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Gertrude Ticho (1967) in a study of self-analysis concluded that it is a gradually developing, discontinuous function, which depends for its activation… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I just think girls become so wrapped up in superficial issues that don't really matter, such as hair and make up and… — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class,… — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
“Should you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless, hair-trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me,… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering… — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when… — Bob Kahn Copy Share Image
“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
“We interact with one another as individuals responding to a complex haze of factors: professional responsibilities, personal likes and dislikes, ambition, jealousy,… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I think there are certain unimpeded passages, that this is registering in my brain somewhere where the drugs and the bugs don’t… — Thomas Moran Copy Share Image
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“At dawn, I sail far from every shore to drain my cup in the sea, barring a bead I keep, tucked close… — Saif Sidari Copy Share Image
Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Distinct identities are strung together on the thread of memory, all of them provisional and perishable. No less fascinating than the birth,… — Robert W. Fuller Copy Share Image
“There’s no greater perjury than self-deception. Lying to ourselves puts to death our definitive truth. Confronting the lies we’ve told ourselves, no… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two year military service, I was brought… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
From watching my own mind deteriorate circuit by circuit, I learned that every ability I have, from wiggling my finger to creating… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
“In addition to the kind of critical reflection on one's previous assumptive or tacit system of values we saw Jack undertake, there… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl.… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable. 1. Just believing it. Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not.… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
