#entity

I can't give up my own identity. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#i #identity #my own #own #up

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. ↗

— Manning Marable

#beyond #black #categories #construct #dismantling

The gaze of others is quite without indulgence for our defects and that of Mantegna is pitiless. I am grateful to him. Harshness, in the realm of the arts, is a virtue, and it is sometimes a good thing to see oneself as one is. My stupor, however, comes from the fact that people recognise me where I myself seem to see a stranger. This leads one to meditate more deeply on the matter. Are they dwelling on my superficial appearance rather than on what I really am? Who can say? ↗

— Marie Ferranti

#identity #art

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity. ↗

— Demi Moore

#beyond #chance #established #identity #most

The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#alive #cell #continually #identity #impossibilities

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am. ↗

— Stephen LaBerge

#identity #dreams

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

But Sir Alistair’s gaze was different. Those other men had looked at her with lust or speculation or crass curiosity, but they hadn’t been looking at her really. They’d been looking at what she represented to them: physical love or a valuable prize or an object to be gawked at. When Sir Alistair stared at her, well, he was looking at her. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#depth #identity #love #superficiality #beauty

Treat everyone you meet as if they were you. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #mindfulness #people #philosophy #inspirational