The Individual Quotes

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.