Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

If you don't want to join a union, you're gonna have much more opportunity for individual expansion, individual expression of talent and achievement. But when you go to work at a place where salaries are predetermined not by your productivity and not by your talent and not by how much you work, but rather by what the union contract is, you're locked into that no matter how good a job you do. The only option you have is overtime to make more than what standard pay is.

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

If you have a system that says everybody who needs healthcare gets it and we're going to make sure that it gets paid for by raising your taxes and providing the requirements on individuals where they have the ability to pay, such as we determine as appropriate, then the insurance issue doesn't come up.

If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

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.

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

I had a lot of maturing I had to go through. I consider myself a smart individual in seeing that this is not the road I want to take.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I have a lot of advantages: I'm not addicted to horrifying pills. I also have surrounded myself with far more caring and upright individuals. And I wasn't abused as a child, so I'm doing okay!

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

I judge each person on individual merits.

I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

I like lime-flavoured yoghurt. The end. There is no religion. It’s a man-made fabrication. Once you understand that, you’ll be a happier individual. Atheism is as pointless as satanism.

I like it to fit my individual body shape, and I encourage other women to find what works for their body shape and not necessarily follow trends. But what is it that works for you as an individual, and what brings out the best in you, and what can you have fun with and feel really good about.

I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

I'm a devout individual so I remain faithful to my church.

I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational!

I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.