The Individual Quotes
A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.
The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.
Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.
I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.
The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.
The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.
The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.
The realms of light exist everywhere forever. But it is up to an individual to raise their mind to a level of stillness at which they can perceive these most beautiful realms of light.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.