Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving.
Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
People have multiple identities.
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.
Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.
Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead. . . . The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
