The Individual Quotes

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

Always feeling rushed is no way for a prosperity-minded individual to live. The objective of life is not to get through it as fast as possible.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government.

We are all one Energy Stream, but what makes the separations or distinguishes the differences is perspective. You are a unique and individual perspective.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

[Patrizio Bertelli or Gildo Zegna] are individuals who are superbusy, traveling all the time. You can't think they will have the time to attend all the meetings.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.

Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.

You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

We have to leave everything we have been, a perceiver, "I" as an individual. That is enlightenment.

Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference. There is no sense of individual self as perceiver.

The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.