“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.” IfsKindTwoCareGamesDifferencesTeamIdentityFootballHugeDon't CareFootball GamePersonal Identity Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.” DifferencesSubjectsIdentityPositionDemandClaimsRelationAbsolutesAll TimeRecognitionCategoriesIdenticalReciprocityIndividuation Author:Jurgen Habermas
“In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.” WorldPlayFormDesireLiteratureIndividualDifferencesIdentityBabyModelsConceptsImpulseClassicInteractionMultipleKaleidoscope Author:Toni Morrison
“When we live life centered around what others like, feel, and say, we lose touch with our own identity. I am an eternal being, created by God. I am an individual with purpose. It's not what I get from life, but who I am, that makes the difference.” FeelsPurposeIndividualLosesDifferencesIdentityEternalWho I AmLive Life Author:Neva Coyle
“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.” WantChildrenPlaySocialParentDifferencesRolesIdentitySkillsAreasFunctionCriticalClose FriendsSocial SkillsClose Friendship Author:Zick Rubin
“The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.” WorldBookMatterHardCharacterHandsSeemsIndividualDifferencesIdentityMassExtraordinaryConnectedImpressionMultitudesPrintedLinear Author:Don DeLillo