Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

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

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual.

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.

Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Because my work discusses feminism and disapproves of feminism, it is important from the leftist standpoint to destroy Dave Sim as an individual and to ignore his work.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they spend.

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Bringing the individual into it music only distracts from the universal and makes it trivial. And then it's easy to wash your hands of it because you might not be from their background, or you might disagree with their personal perspective. So you discount it and go back into your corner instead of coming out and engaging with everything.

But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments as for The Wealth of Nations. And as he understood so well, society is more than the sum of its individual parts.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

Bilingualism for the individual is fine, but not for a country.

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

But, at the end of the day, we want to have a show where we can focus on these individuals and their relationships with each other. That's really what the show is about.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

But, the other thing is, is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That is why we served...

...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

By being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

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.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of jazz there had never been one man who influenced all the instruments.