The Individual Quotes

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.

You're not a restful individual to be around" Ashaya to Dorian

Mandela is this extraordinary individual who can inspire the world. Instead of wanting revenge after being brutalized, he showed the world how to forgive.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

There's no right or wrong, exercise is exercise and it's incredibly healthy for you and, you know, society. And it's a positive thing, so however you want to do it, each individual to themselves.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

My ultimate goal and our ultimate goal is to be individuals, to sustain what we been able to sustain.

Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance.

Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.

Happiness is not an individual matter.

Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.

Of course, individuals are responsible for individual actions - the pilots who flew over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs on those ships did a terrible thing as part of an attack on a military base.

Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Families, like individuals, are unique.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.

Baseball is an individual game, but it should never be a personal game.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.