The Individual Quotes

The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and upon society.

When you realize the Atma then there is no individual.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Individual liberty is individual power.

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

When enough individuals arrive at the same gut feeling, a company can be said to have a brand.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.

The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.