Sherry Turkle Quotes

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

It is good for society to have this introspection.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone. But also, who cares?

We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

People should see my work and think beyond what I am on daily basis, on Twitter, Instagram, or the perception they have of me in their heads.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.

Know thyself.

Questions about who we are and who we want t be are increasingly prominent in our society. We have left behind Soviet ideology and there will be no return.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I'm nobody, who are you?

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.