Individual Quotes

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

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

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

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

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

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

Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.