Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.
Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
A number of studies of homeless youth in big cities put forth a startling statistic: Depending on the study, somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of homeless youths identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
You can't really move forward if you don't heal the past and identify and address the fact that you had a problem and in some cases still have issues. That has to be dealt with.
A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.
I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art - you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!
I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?
I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.