The Individual Quotes

I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.

A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression.

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

I am definitely an individual.

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.

Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.

Getting too much advice from your partner is a little bit like...it can cause conflict. As much as you're married, you're still an individual and you still have your own self of yourself.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

I hope that people who don't live with animals will appreciate that each animal is a unique individual with a rich inner life.

An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

We believe in individual merit as a means of gaining salvation

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.