Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

An individual human existence should be like a river

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

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

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

An individual who can freely and with a clear heart do things because they're fun is a very sane person.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

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

An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They're experiencing false negatives. That means the right person applies for the job electronically but the algorithm kicks them out so they lose that individual.

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.

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

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

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

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

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

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.