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“A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”

People Made Loneliness Identity Essentials Independent Weather

Author:Carson McCullers

“In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.”

Together Remember Team Identity Essentials Standards Collectives Boss

Book:The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team

Source: The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team

“My essential identity is that of a writer.”

Identity Essentials

Author:Athol Fugard

“The primary metaphor for the Easter season is the church as the resurrected people living a resurrected spirituality. Because of Easter we are in union with Christ and are called to live in our baptismal identity in his resurrection. This essential theme of Easter cannot be communicated in a day. It takes a season.”

People Spirituality Christ Church Identity Essentials Seasons Unions Metaphor Primaries Theme Resurrection Easter Easter Season

Author:Robert E. Webber

“As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which Lévy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom.”

Source: Civilization in transition

“In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.”

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Author:Barbara Degenevieve

“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.”

People Knows Needs Feels Mean Ideas Self Hard Problem Would Be Found Understanding Teaching Identity Type Essentials Absolutes Fixed Mistaken Selflessness No Problem Unchanging

Author:Robert Thurman

“An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.”

Past Awareness Identity Personality Essentials Establishment Our Past

Author:Haile Selassie

“Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”

Two Beautiful Language Example Identity Essentials Tongue Poison Italian Reincarnation Beautiful Lady

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.”

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Author:William P. Young

“Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.”